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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

Teresa of Avila

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
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
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
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
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself

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