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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

Teresa of Avila

Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer 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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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
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
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
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
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
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

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