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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.

Teresa of Avila

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
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
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
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
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
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
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
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
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
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
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
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
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
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
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
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

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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