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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

Teresa of Avila

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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 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
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
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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 has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
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
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
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself

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