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

Teresa of Avila

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way 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
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
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 nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
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
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 nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
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
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way

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

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