The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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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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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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All times are dangerous times.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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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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God is even kinder than you think.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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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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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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