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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

Teresa of Avila

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

Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
TERESA OF AVILA

Feeling God Journey
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
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.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
TERESA OF AVILA

Hard Kind Yourself
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 true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
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.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
Teach by works more than words.
TERESA OF AVILA

Teaching Word Work
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Oneself Simplicity

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