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

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Catholic, Saint, Way

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God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.

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Hands, Voice, Feet

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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

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Be Kind, Kind, Severe

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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

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Mean, Garden, Jewels

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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

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Love, Prayer, Sickness

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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

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Perfect, God Love, Neighbour

St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

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Wind, May, Comes And Goes

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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.

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Adversity, Forgiving, Saint

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Pain is never permanent.

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Single, Spiritual, Pain

"The Book of Positive Quotations" edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, (p. 333), 2007.

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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.

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Spiritual, Selfish, Heart

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Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.

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Jesus, Suffering, Christ

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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

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Humility, Suffering, Desire

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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.

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Moving, Time To Move On, Done

Saint Teresa (of Avila) (2003). “The Interior Castle”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

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People, Progress, Cheerful

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For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

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Saint, Sake, Trouble

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

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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.

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Strong, Determination, Perfect

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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

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Jesus, True Friend, Men

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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.

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Believe, Men, Friendly

St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.149, Cosimo, Inc.

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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

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Blessing, Example, Lord

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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.

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Knowing, Saint, Done

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One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.

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Prayer, Thinking, Offering

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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.

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Thinking, Suffering, Saint

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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

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Real, Moving, Ecstasy

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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

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Compare, Persons, Comparison

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

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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.

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Humble, Humility, Greatness

"Interior Castle" by Teresa of Avila, (Ch. 2), as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, 1577.

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Born: March 28, 1515
Died: October 4, 1582
Occupation: Saint
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