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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
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
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
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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Change Hold People Quick Serious
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
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
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

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