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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

Teresa of Avila

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
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
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
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
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

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