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God is even kinder than you think.

Teresa of Avila

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
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
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
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
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
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
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
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
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
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time 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
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
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
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work

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