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Teresa of Avila Quotes about Life

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Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way

Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care.

Teresa of Avila
Inspirational, Life, Self

What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.

Teresa of Avila
Life, Doe, Miserable
Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?

Teresa of Avila
Life, Wall, Sleep
St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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