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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.

Teresa of Avila

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
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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
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
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
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
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach

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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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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