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“To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.”

Saint Teresa of Avila · Experience

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Saint Teresa of Avila

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.

Peace

Saint Teresa of Avila

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Friendship

Saint Teresa of Avila

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Courage

Saint Teresa of Avila

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Fear