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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.

Teresa of Avila

May God protect me from gloomy saints.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Protection Sadness
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA

Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
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
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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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
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 Lost Work
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
TERESA OF AVILA

Thinking Virtue Yourself
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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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
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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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
TERESA OF AVILA

Church Silence Women
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
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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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
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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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking

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