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

Teresa of Avila

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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
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
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility

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