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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.

Teresa of Avila

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
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
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
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
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
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
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
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
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
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
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

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