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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.

Teresa of Avila

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Love turns work into rest.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Teach by works more than words.
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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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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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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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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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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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