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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila

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
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
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
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
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
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
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
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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

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