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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Teresa of Avila

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
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
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
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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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
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
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women

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