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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

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
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
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
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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
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
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
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
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
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

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