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• In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

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  Night, Light, Heaven

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• There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

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  Humility, Saint, World

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1972). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

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  God, Prayer, Saint

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• What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

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  People, Doe, Favors

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• 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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  Jesus, Suffering, Trials

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• 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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  Healing, Thee, Passing

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• We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.

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  Spiritual, Flower, Humility

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• May God protect me from gloomy saints.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Saint

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• It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

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  Fall, Adversity, Soul

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

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  Way, Dies

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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.

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  Appreciation, Priorities, Soul

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

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  Spirit, Spirituality, God Within Us

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• Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

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  Love, Light, Giving

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• They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

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  Believe, Unions, Action

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• Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care.

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  Inspirational, Life, Self

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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.

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  Eye, Compassion, Hands

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• About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

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  Church, Apostle Paul, Silent

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• 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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  Yield, Giving, Doe

  St Teresa of Avila, of Avila Teresa, Saint (2007). “The Way of Perfection”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

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  Practice, Perfection, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodriguez, Stephen J. Connor (1997). “The Wisdom of Teresa of Avila: Selections from the Interior Castle”, p.68, Paulist Press

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• Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.

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  Reality, People, Giving

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• Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

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  Night, Life Is, Inns

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• Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.

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  Disappointment, Kitchen, Tasks

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1957). “The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

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  Prayer, Angel, Saint

  "The Way of Perfection".

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• As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.

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  God, Strong, Thinking

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

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  Silly, Saint, Devotion

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