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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

Teresa of Avila

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
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
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
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
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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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
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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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
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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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
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
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

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

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