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• Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood.

  Teresa of Avila

  Evil, Soul, Wish

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• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  Teresa of Avila

  Secret, Desire, Intimate

  Saint Teresa of Avila (1976). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1”, p.197, ICS Publications

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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

  Prayer, Different, Praying

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.49, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All times are dangerous times.

  Teresa of Avila

  Dangerous, All Time

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• How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

  Teresa of Avila

  Strong, Prayer, Saint

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.49, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Meditation, Surrender

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.139, A&C Black

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• Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Christian, Pregnancy

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

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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

  Needs

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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

  Determination, Advice, Mind

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.178, A&C Black

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• Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Mind, May

  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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• Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

  Teresa of Avila

  Love Is, Suffering, Healed

  Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.45, ICS Publications

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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

  Jesus, Blessed, Holy Eucharist

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• For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.

  Teresa of Avila

  War, Perfect, Soldier

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.163, A&C Black

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• It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Soul, Vision

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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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

  Beautiful, Soul, Liberty

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• Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sweet, Saint, Christ

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• It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faults, Disgrace, Misfortunes

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (2009). “Interior Castle: (the Dwelling Places)”, p.11, Lulu.com

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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

  Daughter, Giving, Constitution

  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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• You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.

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  Perfect, Effort, Sin

  Saint Teresa of Avila, Aeterna Press (1901). “The Way of Perfection”, p.50, Aeterna Press

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• God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.

  Teresa of Avila

  Giving, Helping, Aids

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• There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sorry, Blessing, Poverty

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

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• It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

  Teresa of Avila

  Real, Humility, Progress

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Fear, People, Devil

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

  Teresa of Avila

  Giving, Lovers, Lord

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), Kieran Kavanaugh (2006). “Saint Teresa of Avila for Every Day: Reflections from the Interior Castle”, p.38, Paulist Press

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• We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for no merit of ours. Let us be grateful to His Majesty for them, for, unless we recognize that we are receiving them, we shall not be aroused to love Him. And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all the time that we are poor, the richer we find ourselves, the greater will be the profit that comes to us and the more genuine our humility.

  Teresa of Avila

  Grateful, Humility, Thinking

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