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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

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
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
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
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
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
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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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Change God Patience Strive
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
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
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
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
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
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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