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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.

Teresa of Avila

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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
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 without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer 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
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
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
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
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
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
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
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
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings

Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.

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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.

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