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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Teresa of Avila

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
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
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
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
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
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual

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