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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

Teresa of Avila

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
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
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
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 shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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
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
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering

Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

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