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Love draws forth love.

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Love, Draws

St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

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Love, Christian, Pregnancy

Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

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Love You, Suffering, Trouble

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We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.

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Death, Spring, Eye

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We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

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Prayer, Different, Praying

St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.49, Cosimo, Inc.

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How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

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Thinking, Too Much, Sin

Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

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Light, Two, Different

Teresa of Avila (2013). “The Interior Castle”, p.250, Lulu.com

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If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

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Flower, Thinking, Hoe

St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.372, A&C Black

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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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Spiritual, People, Perfect

St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.216, A&C Black

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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

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Men, Mind, May

Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1957). “The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.

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Angel, Perfection, Earth

Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer is the only way to amend one's life and without prayer it will never be mended. Let him not be tempted of the devil, as I was, to give up prayer on account of one's unworthiness. Let such a one rather believe that if he will only repent and pray, our Lord will still hear and answer.

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Prayer, Giving Up, Believe

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

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Love, Sacrifice, Soul

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It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

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Love, Faith, Christian

St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.12, Jazzybee Verlag

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I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

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Writing, Hands, Wish

St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

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Sin, Habit, Bad Habits

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Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

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Giving, Lovers, Lord

Saint Teresa (of Avila), Kieran Kavanaugh (2006). “Saint Teresa of Avila for Every Day: Reflections from the Interior Castle”, p.38, Paulist Press

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Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.

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Command, One Thing, Conscience

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Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

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Spiritual, Wisdom, Fun

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Let thy words be few when in the midst of many.

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Midst

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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

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Love, Inspiring, Marriage

St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.233, A&C Black

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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

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Strong, Prayer, Saint

St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.49, Cosimo, Inc.

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Nothing is small if God accepts it.

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Accepting, Ifs

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Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.

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Prayer, Mean, Opinion

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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

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Heart, Giving, Wish

St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.30, Library of Alexandria

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Born: March 28, 1515
Died: October 4, 1582
Occupation: Saint
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