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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

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
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
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
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
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
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself

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

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