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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Teresa of Avila

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
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
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

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