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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

Teresa of Avila

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
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
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
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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
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
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
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water

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