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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

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Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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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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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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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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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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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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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns so it is with man's mind.
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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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God, deliver me from sullen saints.
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Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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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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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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