"Souls without prayer are like people whose bodies or limbs are paralysed: they possess feet and hands but they cannot control them." "It is by humility that the Lord allows Himself to be conquered so that He will do all we ask of Him" "The mind’s continual keeping in the presence of God and the concentration of its thoughts on Him would so enrage the fiend that, although he might try the experiment once" "In the spiritual marriage the union is like what we have when rain falls from the sky into a river or fount; all is water, for the rain that fell from heaven cannot be divided or separated from the water of the river. Or when a little stream enters the sea, there is no means of separating the two. Or, like the bright light entering a room through two windows; although the streams of light are separate when entering the room they become one." "Our only valid criteria for judgment are the virtues in the soul who is serving God. Is she humble, detached from personal desires, and is her conscience pure? If so, she is holy." "He always gives us much more than we deserve by granting us a spiritual sweetness much greater than we can obtain from the pleasures and distractions of this life." "by committing a mortal sin, instead of seeking to please God, soul prefers to gratify the devil, the prince of darkness, and so comes to share his blackness." "A garden in which the Beloved takes great delight. What do you think a place might be like that such a king-so powerful and wise, so pure and filled with all good things-would find so delightful?" "Since God has given soul such great dignity, permitting it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to the highest. Let it not force itself to remain for very long in the same mansion, even the one of self-knowledge." Teresa of Ávila, Interior Castle
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"Souls without prayer are like people whose bodies or limbs are paralysed: they possess feet and hands but they cannot control them."
"It is by humility that the Lord allows Himself to be conquered so that He will do all we ask of Him"
"The mind’s continual keeping in the presence of God and the concentration of its thoughts on Him would so enrage the fiend that, although he might try the experiment once"
"In the spiritual marriage the union is like what we have when rain falls from the sky into a river or fount; all is water, for the rain that fell from heaven cannot be divided or separated from the water of the river. Or when a little stream enters the sea, there is no means of separating the two. Or, like the bright light entering a room through two windows; although the streams of light are separate when entering the room they become one."
"Our only valid criteria for judgment are the virtues in the soul who is serving God. Is she humble, detached from personal desires, and is her conscience pure? If so, she is holy."
"He always gives us much more than we deserve by granting us a spiritual sweetness much greater than we can obtain from the pleasures and distractions of this life."
"by committing a mortal sin, instead of seeking to please God, soul prefers to gratify the devil, the prince of darkness, and so comes to share his blackness."
"A garden in which the Beloved takes great delight. What do you think a place might be like that such a king-so powerful and wise, so pure and filled with all good things-would find so delightful?"
"Since God has given soul such great dignity, permitting it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to the highest. Let it not force itself to remain for very long in the same mansion, even the one of self-knowledge."
Teresa of Ávila, Interior Castle
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