"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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"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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"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."
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"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself."
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"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that."
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"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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