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God, wishing His elect to realize their own misery, often temporarily withdraws His favours: no more is needed to prove to us in a very short time what we really are.
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When I think of myself my mind cannot soar to higher things but is like a bird with broken wings.
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What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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I began to think of the soul as if it were a castle made of a single diamond or of very clear crystal, in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
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Teresa of Ávila
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Born:
March 28, 1515
Died:
October 4, 1582
(aged 67)
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