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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

Teresa of Avila

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
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
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
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
TERESA OF AVILA

Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
God is even kinder than you think.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Love turns work into rest.
TERESA OF AVILA

Love One Liner Work
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILA

Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
TERESA OF AVILA

Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
TERESA OF AVILA

Body Hands Lame Prayer 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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
TERESA OF AVILA

Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
TERESA OF AVILA

Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
TERESA OF AVILA

Patience Strive
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
TERESA OF AVILA

Interest Pay People Reason World

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