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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

Teresa of Avila

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
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
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
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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
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
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
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
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place

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