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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

Truth suffers, but never dies.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death One Liner Suffering Truth
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
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
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
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
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
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner

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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