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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

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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death Live Oneself Quick
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
TERESA OF AVILA

See Sight 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
Truth suffers, but never dies.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death One Liner Suffering Truth

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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