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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

Love turns work into rest.
TERESA OF AVILA

Love One Liner Work
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
TERESA OF AVILA

Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
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
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
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
Love draws forth love.
TERESA OF AVILA

Love One Liner
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
TERESA OF AVILA

Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
TERESA OF AVILA

Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking
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
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
TERESA OF AVILA

Afraid Death Live Way

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.

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