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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
Teresa of Avila
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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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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[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
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Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
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All times are dangerous times.
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Pain is never permanent.
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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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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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Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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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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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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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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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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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
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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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Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.
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There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
Teresa of Avila
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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