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Love turns work into rest.

Teresa of Avila

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
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
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
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
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
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
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word 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
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
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner

Love turns work into rest.

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