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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.

Teresa of Avila

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
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
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit

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