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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

For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
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
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
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
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

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