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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

Teresa of Avila

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
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
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
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
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
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
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
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
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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
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
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

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