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Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Teach by works more than words.
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To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.
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Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!
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Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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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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There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
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Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.
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It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.
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Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
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In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.
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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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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
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