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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

Teresa of Avila

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
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
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
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
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
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
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
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
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
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
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
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move

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