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

Teresa of Avila

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness 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
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
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust

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

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