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

Teresa of Avila

Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
TERESA OF AVILA

See Sight Yourself
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
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
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
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
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
TERESA OF AVILA

Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
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
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
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

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

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