Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
TERESA OF AVILAHow friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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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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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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