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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

Teresa of Avila

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Out of suffering comes the serious mind out of salvation, the grateful heart out of endurance, fortitude out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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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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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Thank God for the things that I do not own.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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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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In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
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