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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

Teresa of Avila

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
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
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
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
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
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
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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

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