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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.

Teresa of Avila

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
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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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
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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Church Silence Women
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking

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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