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

Teresa of Avila

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
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
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
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
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
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
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect

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