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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Teresa of Avila

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
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
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
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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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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 let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
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
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

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

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