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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 you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
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
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
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
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
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
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
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
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
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
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

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