Love draws forth love.
TERESA OF AVILAConsider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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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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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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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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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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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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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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