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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

Teresa of Avila

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
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
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
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
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
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
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself

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