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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

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
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
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
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
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
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
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

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