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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

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILA

Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
TERESA OF AVILA

Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
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
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
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
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
TERESA OF AVILA

Pity Start Trouble Way
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
TERESA OF AVILA

Affirmation True
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
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
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
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Teach by works more than words.
TERESA OF AVILA

Teaching Word Work
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

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.

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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.

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