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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.

Teresa of Avila

Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
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
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching

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