It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
TERESA OF AVILAIn 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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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Love turns work into rest.
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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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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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