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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.

Teresa of Avila

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
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
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
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
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
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
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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
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
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy

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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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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