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

Teresa of Avila

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
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
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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
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
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
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
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
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
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
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach

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