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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

Teresa of Avila

What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
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
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

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