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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.

Teresa of Avila

Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
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
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present

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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