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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

Teresa of Avila

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The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great pain this lack causes, the pain is much more intense here. All these things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.
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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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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.
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However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.
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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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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.
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Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.
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Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
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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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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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