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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

Teresa of Avila

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
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
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
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
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.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

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