"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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"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."
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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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"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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