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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

Teresa of Avila

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
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
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
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

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