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• Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

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  Prayer, Secret, Saint

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

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  Humility, Catholic, Saint

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• Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.

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  Humility, Lord, Redeemed

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• How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?

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  Men, Blood, Order

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• It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

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  Love, Different, Way

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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.

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  Prayer, Meditation, Frightened

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

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• Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

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  Body, Earth, Christ

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• 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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  Patience, Strive, Never Change

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.288, A&C Black

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• I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

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  Saint, Divine Help, Helping

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

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• Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

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  Happiness, Heart, Birth

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.283, A&C Black

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• Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.

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  Truth

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.256, A&C Black

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• Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

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  Saint Teresa (of Avila), James M. Houston (2005). “Life of Prayer”, p.26, David C Cook

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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.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Fun

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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.

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  Humility, Honey, Bees

  St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

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  Blessed, Suffering, Saint

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

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• Christ moves along the pots and pans.

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  Moving, Christ, Pot

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• Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

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  Catholic, God Love

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• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

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  Heaven, Soul, Castles

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.32, TAN Books

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• In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.

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  Giving, Saint, Thanks

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• The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

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  Running, Humility, Giving

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1979). “The Interior Castle”, p.181, Paulist Press

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• Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

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  Prayer, Hands, Feet

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

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  God, Coward, Lord

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book called Way of perfection. Interior castle. Conceptions of the love of God. Exclamations of the soul to God”

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• I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

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  Blessed, Fall, Hands

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.48, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

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  Waiting, Facts, Longing

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

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• A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

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  Weed, Prayer, Garden

  Teresa of Avila (2004). “The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself”, p.87, Penguin UK

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