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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

Teresa of Avila

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
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
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
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
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way

Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

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