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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

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful 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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Humility Lost Work
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
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
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
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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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing

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