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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

Teresa of Avila

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
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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind 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
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
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
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach

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