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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

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
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 affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
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
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness

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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