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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

Teresa of Avila

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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
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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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice

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