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

Teresa of Avila

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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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Patience obtains everything.
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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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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Teach by works more than words.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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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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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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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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