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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.

Teresa of Avila

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
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
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
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
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
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
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
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. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

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