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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

Teresa of Avila

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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.
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Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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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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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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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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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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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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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.
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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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God, deliver me from sullen saints.
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The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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