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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

Teresa of Avila

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
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
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
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
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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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
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
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

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