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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

Teresa of Avila

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
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
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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

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