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It is not so essential to think much as to love much.
Teresa of Avila
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
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His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.
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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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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
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Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.
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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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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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All times are dangerous times.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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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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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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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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