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“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”
― Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila, Volume III
― Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila, Volume III
“I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and admirably descriptive of her pain: they did not come from her understanding, but, in order the better to enjoy the bliss which came to her from such delectable pain, she complained of it to her God. She would have been so glad if she could have been cut to pieces, body and soul, to show what joy this pain caused her. What torments could have been set before her at such a time which she would not have found it delectable to endure for her Lord's sake?”
― The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
― The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
“To have courage for whatever comes in life
– everything lies in that”
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“All the way to heaven is heaven.”
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“I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, or such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was in no sense a vision: I believe it is called mystical theology. The soul is suspended in such a way that it seems to be completely outside itself. The will loves; the memory, I think, is almost lost; while the understanding, I believe, thought it is not lost, does not reason—I mean that it does not work, but is amazed at the extent of all it can understand; for God wills it to realize that it understands nothing of what His Majesty represents to it.”
― The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
― The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
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