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• Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

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  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.80, ICS Publications

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• If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

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  Perfection, Suffering, Reason

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• 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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  Peace, Motivation, Real

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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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.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

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  Honor, Friendly, Should

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

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• No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.

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  Thinking, Wish, Say Anything

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• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

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  Humility, Done, Remember

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1957). “The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

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  Love, Thinking, Matter

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• After you die, you wear what you are.

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  Near Death, Near Death Experience, Dies

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• He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

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  Lacking

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

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• People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

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  People, World, Littles

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

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• We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

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  Wings, Saint, Needs

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

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  Thinking, Opposites, Firsts

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• Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

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  Honesty, Sight, Authenticity

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.258, A&C Black

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• Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

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  Prayer, Practice, People

  Teresa Of Avila (2004). “The Interior Castle”, p.29, Penguin

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• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

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  Prayer, Humility, Catholic

  Attributed in "The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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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.

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  Different, May, Praying

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• It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

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  Sins Not, Sin

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.372, A&C Black

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• Love turns work into rest.

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  Turns

  Saint Teresa of Avila (1976). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1”, p.448, ICS Publications

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• It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

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  Dangerous, Satisfied, Dangerous Things

  Saint Teresa of Avila (1976). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1”, p.279, ICS Publications

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• 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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  People, Doe, Saint

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• Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

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  Self Control, Matter, Speak

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• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

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  Hands, Calling, World

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• The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

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  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1897). “Santa Teresa: An Appreciation, with Some of the Best Passages of the Saint's Writings Selected”

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• This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

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  Essentials, Body, Likes

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.47, A&C Black

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