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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

Teresa of Avila

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
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
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
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
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.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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

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