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

Teresa of Avila

To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
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 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
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
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
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
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
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
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
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
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
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual

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