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May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Teresa of Avila

Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
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
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
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
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
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
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
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself

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