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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

Teresa of Avila

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
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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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
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
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
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
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
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
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom

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