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

Teresa of Avila

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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
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
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
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
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
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
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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

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