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Teach by works more than words.

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
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
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
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
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
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
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
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 Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
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.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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

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