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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

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
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
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
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
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
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
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
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
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
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul 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
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
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 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
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
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way

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