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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Teresa of Avila

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
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
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
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
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
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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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
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

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