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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.

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
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
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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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
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
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
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
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
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience 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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
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
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
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
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
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
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth

Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.

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