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We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal

We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.

Teresa of Avila
Strong, Thinking, Doubt
"Interior Castle" by Teresa of Avila, (Ch. 3), translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1921), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman, 1577.

Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

Teresa of Avila
God, Contentment
Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1986). “Daily Readings With St. Teresa of Avila”, Templegate Pub

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

Teresa of Avila
Real, Soul, Principles
St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.31, Jazzybee Verlag

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

Teresa of Avila
Prayer, Giving, Soul
St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

Teresa of Avila
Spiritual, Men, Evil
Teresa of Avila (2013). “The Interior Castle”, p.16, Lulu.com

God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

Teresa of Avila
Evil, Endurance, Patient

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

Teresa of Avila
God, Mother, Kings

Patient endurance attends to all things.

Teresa of Avila
Endurance, Patient, All Things

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

Teresa of Avila
God, Lord, States
'Interior Castle' Mansion 6, ch. 11, para. 6; translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook, 1921

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

Teresa of Avila
Death, Long, Hours

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Teresa of Avila
Prayer, Wicked, Saint
St Teresa of Avila (2006). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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