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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

Teresa of Avila

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
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
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
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
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
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
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
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
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
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

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