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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

Teresa of Avila

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope 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
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
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
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
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
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
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

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