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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.

Teresa of Avila

Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
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
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice

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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