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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

From moment to moment one can bear much.
TERESA OF AVILA

Moments Oneself
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
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
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
TERESA OF AVILA

Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
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
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
God is even kinder than you think.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Kindness Thinking Yourself
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
TERESA OF AVILA

Comfortable Life Night
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
TERESA OF AVILA

Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
TERESA OF AVILA

Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
TERESA OF AVILA

Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
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
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
TERESA OF AVILA

See Sight Yourself
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
TERESA OF AVILA

Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul

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.

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