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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

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
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
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
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
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
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
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
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
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
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction

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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