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I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words. — Teresa Of Avila

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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer. — Teresa Of Avila

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Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus. — Teresa Of Avila

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Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will. — Teresa Of Avila

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Will tell you, for I am not sure if you properly understand as yet how much we owe to the Lord for bringing us to a place where we are so free from business matters, occasions of sin and the society of worldly people. — Teresa Of Avila

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There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them. — Teresa Of Avila

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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. — Teresa Of Avila

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I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine ... — Teresa Of Avila

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Love turns work into rest. — Teresa Of Avila

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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts. — Teresa Of Avila

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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all. — Teresa Of Avila

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Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them. — Teresa Of Avila

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If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies. — Teresa Of Avila

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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. — Teresa Of Avila

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We should pray most regularly for those who give us light. — Teresa Of Avila

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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace. — Teresa Of Avila

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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true. — Teresa Of Avila

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Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation. — Teresa Of Avila

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Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die. — Teresa Of Avila

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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa Of Avila

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If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it. — Teresa Of Avila

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We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does. — Teresa Of Avila

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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people! — Teresa Of Avila

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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end ... and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal. — Teresa Of Avila

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That name
my conception of Him
extended to me
a hand that led to a place
where even His divine name could not exist.
Why? — Teresa Of Avila

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Vocal prayer ... must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move. — Teresa Of Avila

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It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them. — Teresa Of Avila

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Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation. — Teresa Of Avila

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself. — Teresa Of Avila

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We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God ... — Teresa Of Avila

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How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom. — Teresa Of Avila

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That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works
I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones. — Teresa Of Avila

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Christ has no body on Earth but ours. — Teresa Of Avila

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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. — Teresa Of Avila

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We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints. — Teresa Of Avila

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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole. — Teresa Of Avila

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Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one. — Teresa Of Avila

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[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another. — Teresa Of Avila

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It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day. — Teresa Of Avila

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With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound. — Teresa Of Avila

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Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction ... don't let any prude tell you otherwise — Teresa Of Avila

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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us — Teresa Of Avila

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In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence — Teresa Of Avila

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I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more. — Teresa Of Avila

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Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end. — Teresa Of Avila

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Happy the heart where love has come to birth. — Teresa Of Avila

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Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully. — Teresa Of Avila

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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

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For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict. — Teresa Of Avila

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Let the truth be in your hearts, as it will be if you practise meditation, and you will see clearly what love we are bound to have for our neighbors. — Teresa Of Avila

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Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity. — Teresa Of Avila

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Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices. — Teresa Of Avila

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Any unrest and any strife can be borne, as I have already said, if we find peace where we live; but if we would have rest from the thousand trials which afflict us in the world and the Lord is pleased to prepare such rest for us, and yet the cause of the trouble is in ourselves, the result cannot but be very painful, indeed almost unbearable. — Teresa Of Avila

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We are weakness itself, and unless He guards the city, in vain shall we labor to defend it. — Teresa Of Avila

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The hour I have long wished for is now come. — Teresa Of Avila

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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few! — Teresa Of Avila

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God aids the valiant ... both to you and to me He will give the help needed. — Teresa Of Avila

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The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering — Teresa Of Avila

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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. — Teresa Of Avila

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Matters. Do you think, my daughters, that it is an easy matter to have to do business with the world, to live in the world, to engage in the affairs of the world, and, as I have said, to live as worldly men do, and yet inwardly to be strangers to the world, and enemies of the world, like persons who are in exile
to be, in short, not men but angels? — Teresa Of Avila

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For at times it happens that some trifle will cause as much suffering to one as a great trial will to another; little things can bring much distress to persons who have sensitive natures. If you are not like them, do not fail to be compassionate. — Teresa Of Avila

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Be kind to all and severe to thyself. — Teresa Of Avila

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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves. — Teresa Of Avila

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Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient. — Teresa Of Avila

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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. — Teresa Of Avila

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For the devil never slumbers. And the nearer we are to perfection, the more careful we must be, since his temptations are then much more cunning because there are no others that he dare send us; — Teresa Of Avila

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You must know that weather or not you are practicing mental prayer has nothing to do with keeping your lips closed. If, while I am speaking with God, I am fully conscious of doing so, and if this is more real to me than the words I am uttering, then I am combining mental and vocal prayer. I am amazed when people tell me that you are speaking with God by reciting the Paternoster even while you are thinking of worldly things. When you speak with a Lord so great, you should think of Who it is you are addressing and what you yourself are, if only that you may speak to Him with proper respect. How can you address a king with the reverence he deserves unless you are clearly conscious of his position and yours? — Teresa Of Avila

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Before prayer, endeavor to realize whose Presence you are approaching, and to whom you are about to speak. We can never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before whom the angels tremble. — Teresa Of Avila

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The best thing must be to flee from all to the All. — Teresa Of Avila

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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him. — Teresa Of Avila

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At night a hooded monk passed by where there were no lamps.
I could not see his face. I only heard these words he kept repeating:
"Teach me, dear Lord, all that you know."
I knew instantly a great treasure had entered my soul. — Teresa Of Avila

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After you die, you wear what you are. — Teresa Of Avila

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It is not so essential to think much as to love much. — Teresa Of Avila

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To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly. — Teresa Of Avila

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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn. — Teresa Of Avila

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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. — Teresa Of Avila

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I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.' — Teresa Of Avila

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However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified. — Teresa Of Avila

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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds. — Teresa Of Avila

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It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory. — Teresa Of Avila

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Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride. — Teresa Of Avila

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The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire ... The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it. — Teresa Of Avila

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Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins. — Teresa Of Avila

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May the Lord lay His hand on all that I do so that it may be in accordance with His holy will; this is always my desire, although my actions may be as imperfect as I myself am. — Teresa Of Avila

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Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours. — Teresa Of Avila

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We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense. — Teresa Of Avila

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There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. — Teresa Of Avila

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His Majesty [the Lord] ... rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God. — Teresa Of Avila

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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture. — Teresa Of Avila

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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance. — Teresa Of Avila

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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite. — Teresa Of Avila

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Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer is the only way to amend one's life and without prayer it will never be mended. Let him not be tempted of the devil, as I was, to give up prayer on account of one's unworthiness. Let such a one rather believe that if he will only repent and pray, our Lord will still hear and answer. — Teresa Of Avila

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God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres. — Teresa Of Avila

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The mind's continual keeping in the presence of God 8 and the concentration of its thoughts on Him would so enrage the fiend that, although he might try the experiment once, he — Teresa Of Avila

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So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways. — Teresa Of Avila

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God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works. — Teresa Of Avila

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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God. — Teresa Of Avila

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As I see it, we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves unless we seek to know God: let — Teresa Of Avila

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Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes. — Teresa Of Avila

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To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face — Teresa Of Avila