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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.

Teresa of Avila

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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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God is even kinder than you think.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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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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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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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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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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