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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

Teresa of Avila

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation 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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk

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