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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

Teresa of Avila

No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
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
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
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
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
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
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
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
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
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
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
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

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