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After you die, you wear what you are.

Teresa of Avila

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
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
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
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
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
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself

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