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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

Teresa of Avila

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILA

Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
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
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
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
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
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
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
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
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
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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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World

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