"Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed."
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"People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved."
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"It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler."
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"Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours."
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"No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself."
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"Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish."
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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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"Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him."
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"I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world."
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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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"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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"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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"If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you."
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"God is even kinder than you think."
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"There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world."
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"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that."
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"After you die, you wear what you are."
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"One always goes on as one begins."
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"Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost."
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"Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices."
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