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Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

Teresa of Avila

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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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I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'
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Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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The words are very distinctly formed but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer... There is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen...
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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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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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.
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[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
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What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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