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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.

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
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
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
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
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
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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

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