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There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

Teresa of Avila

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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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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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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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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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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.
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God never changes Patient endurance Attains to all things Who God possesses In nothing is wanting Alone God suffices.
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Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.
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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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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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