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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

Teresa of Avila

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

Important Love Yourself
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue 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
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
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
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
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
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
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul

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