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Love draws forth love.

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
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
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
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
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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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
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
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
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
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

Love draws forth love.

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