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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

Teresa of Avila

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust

Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

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