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After you die, you wear what you are.

Teresa of Avila

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
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope 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
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
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

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