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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Teresa of Avila

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
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
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
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work

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