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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.

Teresa of Avila

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
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
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
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night

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