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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

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
TERESA OF AVILA

Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
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
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
TERESA OF AVILA

Freedom Ourselves Sin True
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
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
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
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Himself Satisfaction
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning 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

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.

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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.

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