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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

Teresa of Avila

Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
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
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
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
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
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
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself

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