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• One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Offering

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• Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

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  Humility, Honey, Bees

  St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

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  Fear, Humility, Half

  "The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of The Order of Our Lady of Carmel" by Teresa of Avila, translated by David Lewis, (Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject"), 1904.

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• It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

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  Prayer, Meditation, Frightened

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1972). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.

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  Thinking, Suffering, Saint

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• We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.

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  Knowing, Saint, Done

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• Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

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  Prayer, Secret, Saint

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

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  Saint Teresa (of Avila), James M. Houston (2005). “Life of Prayer”, p.26, David C Cook

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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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  Night, Heaven, Looks

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• Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

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  Love, Prayer, Sickness

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• I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

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  Saint, Divine Help, Helping

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

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• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

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  Heaven, Soul, Castles

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.32, TAN Books

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• For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

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  Saint, Sake, Trouble

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

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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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  Humility, Suffering, Desire

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• If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

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  Children, Evil, Giving

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

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  Real, Moving, Ecstasy

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• Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

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  Compare, Persons, Comparison

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.258, A&C Black

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• I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

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  Blessed, Fall, Hands

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.48, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

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  Memories, Eye, Evil

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1962). “Life of Saint Teresa: Written by Herself”

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• Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

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  Happiness, Heart, Birth

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.283, A&C Black

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• How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?

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  Men, Blood, Order

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• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

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  God, Humility, Journey

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• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

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  Humility, Catholic, Saint

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• May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

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  Wind, May, Comes And Goes

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• In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence

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  Jesus, Blessed, Holy Eucharist

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