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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Teresa of Avila

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
TERESA OF AVILA

Thinking Virtue Yourself
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.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
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
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
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
TERESA OF AVILA

Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
TERESA OF AVILA

Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Myself People Perfection Spiritual

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