"God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher."
-Saint Teresa of Avila
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"We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us."
-Saint Teresa of Avila
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"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."
-Saint Teresa of Avila
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"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."
-Saint Teresa of Avila
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"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself."
-Saint Teresa of Avila
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"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that."
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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."
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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
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"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
-Karen Armstrong
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