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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

Teresa of Avila

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
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
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
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
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
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
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
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
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
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

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