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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.

Teresa of Avila

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
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
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
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

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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