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

Teresa of Avila

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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 love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking
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
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction

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