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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

Teresa of Avila

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
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
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
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
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
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
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom

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