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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Teresa of Avila

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
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
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work

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