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

Teresa of Avila

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
TERESA OF AVILA

Himself Talk Thinking Voice
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
TERESA OF AVILA

Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILA

Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
TERESA OF AVILA

Thinking Virtue Yourself
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
TERESA OF AVILA

Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World

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