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

Teresa of Avila

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
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
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
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
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
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself

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