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«It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
(Mystic, Nun, Writer)
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«I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.»
«We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.»
«O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
(Mystic, Nun, Writer)
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continuous, follies, longs, pious, possesses, utters
«God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.»
«About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
(Mystic, Nun, Writer)
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«Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God sufficeth.»
«Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.»
«Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which»
«There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.»
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