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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.

Teresa of Avila

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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death Live Oneself Quick
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
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
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
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

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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