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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.

Teresa of Avila

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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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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind out of salvation, the grateful heart out of endurance, fortitude out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.
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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns so it is with man's mind.
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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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God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.
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In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
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Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
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