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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

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
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
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer

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