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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.

Teresa of Avila

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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
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
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
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
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

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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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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