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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

Teresa of Avila

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
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
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
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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
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
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
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
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
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

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