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

Teresa of Avila

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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.
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It is not so essential to think much as to love much.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.
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[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns so it is with man's mind.
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Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.
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What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.
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