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Sanctity lies not in saying beautiful things, or even in thinking them, or feeling them: it lies in truly being willing to suffer. – St. Therese

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I can say that my life is a continuous prayer, for everything I do I do it out out of love for my Jesus. -St. Teresa de los Andes

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We must dig deeply in Christ. He is like a rich mine with many pockets containing treasures: however deep we dig we will never find their end or their limit. Indeed, in every pocket new seams of fresh riches are discovered on all sides. – St. John of the Cross

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In heaven, there will be no looks of indifference, because all the saints owe so much to one another. No envious glances will be cast, because the happiness of each is the happiness of all. – St. Therese

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The devil knows that he has lost the soul that perseveringly practices mental prayer. – St Teresa of Avila

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Let him have a fixed determination not to allow himself to be beaten, for, if the devil sees that he has firmly resolved to lose his life and his peace and everything that he can offer him rather than to return to the first room, he will very soon cease…

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Yes, it is true, God can make you a contemplative — through His goodness and mercy; but, in my opinion, one should always take the lowest place, for this is what the Lord told us to do and taught us in deed. Prepare yourself so that God may lead you…

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The greatest of all is that he has shown me my littleness and how, of myself, I am incapable of anything good. – St. Therese

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To live hidden in Christ it is necessary to die to self. – St. Teresa de los Andes

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A supernatural soul does not stop to deal with secondary causes, but solely with God. And how life thus becomes simplified! … then the soul is truly great, truly free, for its will is ‘enclosed’ in that of God. – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

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