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• For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.

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  War, Perfect, Soldier

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.163, A&C Black

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• What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

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  Jesus, Merit, Christ

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.47, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.

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  Sweet, Saint, Christ

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• I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'

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  Daughter, Giving, Constitution

  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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• I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

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  Fear, People, Devil

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Patience obtains everything.

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  Suffering

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• To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

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  Angel, Acceptance, Wish

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• There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

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  Sorry, Blessing, Poverty

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

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• The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that dwelling be in which a King so mighty, so wise, and so pure, containing in Himself all good, can delight to rest? Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He told us, He created us in his own image and likeness.

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  Wise, Kings, Men

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

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• It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

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  Faults, Disgrace, Misfortunes

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (2009). “Interior Castle: (the Dwelling Places)”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

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  Real, Humility, Progress

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.

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  Prayer, Moving, Reflection

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodriguez, Stephen J. Connor (1997). “The Wisdom of Teresa of Avila: Selections from the Interior Castle”, p.33, Paulist Press

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• I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.

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  Cost, Failing, Said

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

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• To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face

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  Kings, Giving, Desire

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• God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.

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  Giving, Helping, Aids

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• A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.

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  Sleep, Failing, Virtue

  Saint Teresa of Avila, Aeterna Press (1951). “The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus”, p.336, Aeterna Press

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• We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for no merit of ours. Let us be grateful to His Majesty for them, for, unless we recognize that we are receiving them, we shall not be aroused to love Him. And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all the time that we are poor, the richer we find ourselves, the greater will be the profit that comes to us and the more genuine our humility.

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  Grateful, Humility, Thinking

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• God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

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  Sleep, Humility, Trying

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.83, TAN Books

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• We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God.

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  Believe, Love You, May

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• That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

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  Mean, Saint, Rewards

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• I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

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  Gratitude, Perfection, Sardines

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

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• His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should give us, for He can rightly tell us that we don't know what we're asking for (cf. Mt. 20:22). The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer ? and don't forget this, because it's very important ? should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every possible effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will.

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  Christian, Determination, Prayer

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• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

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  Friendship, Prayer, Catholic

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), James M. Houston (2005). “Life of Prayer”, p.85, David C Cook

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• In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.

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  Love Is, Fire, Order

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• The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of the enemy; for when God sends an inspiration, the very first effect of it is to infuse a spirit of docility.

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  Spring, Inspiration, Temptation

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