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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

Teresa of Avila

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
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
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
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
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer

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