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

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

Saint Teresa of Avila · Fear

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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.

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Saint Teresa of Avila

God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

God

Saint Teresa of Avila

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

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Saint Teresa of Avila

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

Experience