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

Teresa of Avila

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
TERESA OF AVILA

Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
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
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
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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 God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
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
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
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
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
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

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

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