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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

Teresa of Avila

Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
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
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
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
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
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

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