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" Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. "
Saint Teresa of Avila
Care
Our
Needs
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" I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. "
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" Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. "
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" I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen. "
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" More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. "
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Over
" Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love. "
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" Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. "
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Stern
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" Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then. "
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" For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. "
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Nothing
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" My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory. "
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Blind
Better
Good
" To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. "
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Life
Whatever
" Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart. "
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Seems
Heart
Because
" May God protect me from gloomy saints. "
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Protect
May
Saints
" It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. "
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Small
Believe
Love
" In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. "
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Life
Man
Soul
" I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. "
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Castle
Heaven
Single
" All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. "
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Where
Wisdom
Come
" I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked. "
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Grace
Me
God
" When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth. "
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Soul
Pool
Evil
" What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company? "
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Bear
Will
Us
" We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. "
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Surrender
God
Know
" God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person. "
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Me
Virtue
" A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. "
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Little
Within
Soul
" Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen? "
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You
Think
" The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. "
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God
Journey
Remains
" If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. "
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God
Church
Goodness
" It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. "
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Understand
Small
Own
" It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility. "
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Time
Poverty
Progress
" To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. "
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Experience
Gone
Good
" The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it. "
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Myself
Trials
Me
" God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. "
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God
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Sleep