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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

Teresa of Avila

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
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
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
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
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

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