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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

Teresa of Avila

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The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.
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There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them, and don't ask about them.
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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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Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Teach by works more than words.
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We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
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Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.
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What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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