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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

Teresa of Avila

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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.
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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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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.
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We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.
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There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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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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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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