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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

Teresa of Avila

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
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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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
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

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

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