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• Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

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  Prayer, Father, Heart

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• Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.

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  Spiritual, Selfish, Heart

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• If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

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  Catholic, Saint, Way

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• It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

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  Dangerous, Satisfied, Dangerous Things

  Saint Teresa of Avila (1976). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1”, p.279, ICS Publications

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• Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

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  Be Kind, Kind, Severe

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• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

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  Hands, Calling, World

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• Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

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  Prayer, Hands, Feet

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

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  People, Doe, Saint

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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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  Humble, Humility, Greatness

  "Interior Castle" by Teresa of Avila, (Ch. 2), as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, 1577.

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• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

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  Humility, Done, Remember

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1957). “The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• Pain is never permanent.

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  Single, Spiritual, Pain

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, (p. 333), 2007.

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• [Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.

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  Moving, Time To Move On, Done

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (2003). “The Interior Castle”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.

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  Blessed, Joy, Soul

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• The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

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  Adversity, Forgiving, Saint

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• This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

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  Essentials, Body, Likes

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.47, A&C Black

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• It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.

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  Strong, Determination, Perfect

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• Thank God for the things that I do not own.

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  Thank God

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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.

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  Blessing, Example, Lord

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• The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

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  God, Best Things

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

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• If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

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  Jesus, True Friend, Men

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• Christ moves along the pots and pans.

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  Moving, Christ, Pot

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• It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

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  Love, Different, Way

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• Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

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  People, Progress, Cheerful

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• Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.

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  Jesus, Suffering, Christ

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• If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

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  Mean, Garden, Jewels

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