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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

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue 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 tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
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
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
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
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
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth

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

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