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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

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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
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
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
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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
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
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
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Life Spirit

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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