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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

Teresa of Avila

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
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
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
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
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
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
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
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
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
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience

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