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

Teresa of Avila

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
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
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude 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
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
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
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
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
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
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

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