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

Teresa of Avila

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
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
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
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
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

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

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