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May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Teresa of Avila

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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death Live Oneself Quick
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
Teach by works more than words.
TERESA OF AVILA

Teaching Word Work
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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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
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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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Life Spirit
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Himself Need Search Wings
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
TERESA OF AVILA

Born Happiness Love
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
TERESA OF AVILA

Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
TERESA OF AVILA

Affirmation True
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
TERESA OF AVILA

Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA

Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
TERESA OF AVILA

Body Care Desire Need Ourselves

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