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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

Teresa of Avila

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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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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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There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
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As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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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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Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!
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Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.
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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us
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Prayer is an act of love words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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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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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.
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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.
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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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