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Christ moves along the pots and pans.

Teresa of Avila

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
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
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
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
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
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
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
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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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
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
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
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 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
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God

Christ moves along the pots and pans.

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