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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Teresa of Avila

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
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
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
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
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember 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
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True

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