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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

Teresa of Avila

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
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
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way

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