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• Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

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  Prayer, Angel, Saint

  "The Way of Perfection".

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• What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us

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  Elsewhere, Ifs

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.

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  Spiritual, Flower, Humility

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• Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

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  Healing, Thee, Passing

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• Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care.

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  Inspirational, Life, Self

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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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  Faith, Grateful, Heart

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• However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

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  Women, Speak, Enough

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• If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

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  Practice, Perfection, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodriguez, Stephen J. Connor (1997). “The Wisdom of Teresa of Avila: Selections from the Interior Castle”, p.68, Paulist Press

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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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  Night, Light, Heaven

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• If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

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  Perfection, Suffering, Reason

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• God is even kinder than you think.

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  Faith, Thinking, Kinder

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• The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

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  Spirit, Spirituality, God Within Us

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• As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Strong, Thinking

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• Love turns work into rest.

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  Turns

  Saint Teresa of Avila (1976). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1”, p.448, ICS Publications

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• Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.

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  Yield, Giving, Doe

  St Teresa of Avila, of Avila Teresa, Saint (2007). “The Way of Perfection”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

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  Eye, Compassion, Hands

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• It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

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  Love, Thinking, Matter

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• No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.

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  Thinking, Wish, Say Anything

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• Teach by works more than words.

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  Teach

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• Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

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  Way, Dies

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• After you die, you wear what you are.

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  Near Death, Near Death Experience, Dies

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• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Lying

  "The Little Lamp" by Eknath Easwaran, (p. 80), 1981.

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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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  Thinking, Opposites, Firsts

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• Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

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  Night, Life Is, Inns

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• About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

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  Church, Apostle Paul, Silent

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