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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

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
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
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
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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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself

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