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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.

Teresa of Avila

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
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
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
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
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
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
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
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
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
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
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
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work

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