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May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Teresa of Avila

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
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
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
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
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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
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
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience

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