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• We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Strong, Thinking, Doubt

  "Interior Castle" by Teresa of Avila, (Ch. 3), translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1921), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, 1577.

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• Who God possesseth
  In nothing is wanting;
  Alone God sufficeth.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Contentment

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1986). “Daily Readings With St. Teresa of Avila”, Templegate Pub

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• God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

  Teresa of Avila

  Evil, Endurance, Patient

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• While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

  Teresa of Avila

  Real, Soul, Principles

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.31, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Giving, Soul

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Men, Evil

  Teresa of Avila (2013). “The Interior Castle”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• The hour I have long wished for is now come.

  Teresa of Avila

  Death, Long, Hours

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

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Mother, Kings

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• Patient endurance attends to all things.

  Teresa of Avila

  Endurance, Patient, All Things

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• Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Lord, States

  'Interior Castle' Mansion 6, ch. 11, para. 6; translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook, 1921

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• Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Wicked, Saint

  St Teresa of Avila (2006). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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