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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

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
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
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
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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

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