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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Teresa of Avila

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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
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
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
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
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself

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