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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

Teresa of Avila

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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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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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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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