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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

Teresa of Avila

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
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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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
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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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
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
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself

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