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

Teresa of Avila

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
TERESA OF AVILA

Act Kindness Soul
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
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
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
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
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
TERESA OF AVILA

Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
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
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
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
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude 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

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