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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

Teresa of Avila

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
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
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
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
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
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
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

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

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