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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

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
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
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
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
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

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