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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

Teresa of Avila

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
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue 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
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
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

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

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