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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Teresa of Avila

Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
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
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
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
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
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
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
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
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
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right

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