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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.

Teresa of Avila

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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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
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
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
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
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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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau

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