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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

Teresa of Avila

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
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
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight 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
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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul

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