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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

Teresa of Avila

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
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
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
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
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

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