"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."
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"Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value."
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"Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself."
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"Happy the heart where love has come to birth."
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"As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him."
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"All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted."
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"From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us."
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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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"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."
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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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"It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body."
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"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
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"The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of the enemy; for when God sends an inspiration, the very first effect of it is to infuse a spirit of docility."
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"We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us."
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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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"Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices."
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"If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive."
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"Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true."
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"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
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"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."
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