

“Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)”
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“For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.”
― The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
― The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

“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

“Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.”
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Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.”
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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
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