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

Teresa of Avila

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
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
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
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
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
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
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

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