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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

Teresa of Avila

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
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
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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
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
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
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
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
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
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong

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