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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.

Teresa of Avila

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
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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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
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

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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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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