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Love turns work into rest.

Teresa of Avila

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
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
TERESA OF AVILA

Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
TERESA OF AVILA

Curiosity Talk Yourself
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
TERESA OF AVILA

Alone Love Worth
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
TERESA OF AVILA

Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
TERESA OF AVILA

Thinking Virtue Yourself
Pain is never permanent.
TERESA OF AVILA

One Liner Pain
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
TERESA OF AVILA

Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Settle Solitude 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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
TERESA OF AVILA

Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
TERESA OF AVILA

Afraid Death Live Way
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

Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Protection Sadness

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