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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

Teresa of Avila

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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
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
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
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
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
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
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
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
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
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

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