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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

Teresa of Avila

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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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The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind out of salvation, the grateful heart out of endurance, fortitude out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
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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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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
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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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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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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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You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
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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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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.
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If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.
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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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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns so it is with man's mind.
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