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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

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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
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
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself

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