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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.

Teresa of Avila

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
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
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
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
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
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
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
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
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
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
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
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
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
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

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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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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