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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

Teresa of Avila

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
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
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
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
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
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
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
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

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