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

Teresa of Avila

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
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
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
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
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
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
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
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
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
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick

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