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

Teresa of Avila

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
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
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
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
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
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
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
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
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
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

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

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