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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

Teresa of Avila

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
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
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
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
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
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

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