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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

Teresa of Avila

For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
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
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
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
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
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
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

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