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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
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
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
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
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel 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
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
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
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
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World

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