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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

Teresa of Avila

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
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
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
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself

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