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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

Teresa of Avila

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All times are dangerous times.
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Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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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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However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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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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You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.
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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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Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.
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Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.
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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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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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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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