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

Teresa of Avila

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
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
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
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
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
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
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy

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