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“What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.” quote by Teresa of Avila — Download Open image

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

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I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.

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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

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Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin…

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Truth suffers, but never dies.

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“you will never lack so much of the water of comfort that your thirst will be intolerable;”

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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

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“an unrestrained infatuation with ecstasy and other extraordinary phenomena developed. These experiences were thought of as something to be obtained at all costs. Among some noted but deceptive visionaries of the time was the stigmatic, María de Santo Domingo (1486-1524), known as the Beata of Piedrahita. Her monastery became a center of spirituality and high prayer; she herself wrote a…

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