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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

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
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
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
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
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
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
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
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
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

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