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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

Teresa of Avila

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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
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
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
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
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
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
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
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
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
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk 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

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

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