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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

Teresa of Avila

All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
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
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
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
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
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
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
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
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick

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