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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

Teresa of Avila

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
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
TERESA OF AVILA

Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
TERESA OF AVILA

Different Love Nature Way Work
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
TERESA OF AVILA

Fact God Lost Risk
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
TERESA OF AVILA

Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
TERESA OF AVILA

Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
TERESA OF AVILA

Pity Start Trouble Way
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
TERESA OF AVILA

Angel Earth Weird
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
TERESA OF AVILA

Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
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
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
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
TERESA OF AVILA

Comfortable Life Night
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

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

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