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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.

Teresa of Avila

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
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
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
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
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
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
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
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
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
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

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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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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