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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

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
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
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
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
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
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.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

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