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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

Teresa of Avila

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
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
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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
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
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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
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
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
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
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

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