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Teach by works more than words.

Teresa of Avila

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
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
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
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
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
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak

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