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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

Teresa of Avila

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience 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
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
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
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
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
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
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
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True

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