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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.

Teresa of Avila

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
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
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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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
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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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
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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Death Live Oneself Quick
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
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
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
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

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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