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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

Teresa of Avila

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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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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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The words are very distinctly formed but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer... There is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen...
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
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Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.
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Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.
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Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.
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