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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

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
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
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.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking 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
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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

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