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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

Teresa of Avila

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
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
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
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
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
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching

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