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May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Teresa of Avila

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
TERESA OF AVILA

Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Settle Solitude Yourself
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
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Oneself Simplicity
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
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
TERESA OF AVILA

Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
TERESA OF AVILA

Freedom Ourselves Sin True
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA

Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Move
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
TERESA OF AVILA

Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
TERESA OF AVILA

Fact Slow Yourself
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
TERESA OF AVILA

Answer Prayer Tears
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
TERESA OF AVILA

Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
TERESA OF AVILA

Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
TERESA OF AVILA

Poor Prediction Wisdom

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