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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Teresa of Avila

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
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
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
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
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
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
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
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
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water

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