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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

Teresa of Avila

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

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