Teresa of Avila: The Interior Castle: Seventh Mansions: Chapter Four It benefits me little to be alone making acts of devotion to our Lord, proposing and promising to do wonders in his service, if I then go away and when…
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A Different Perspective on Booing
“It is only a comparison–so long as we are buried in the wretchedness of our earthly nature these streams of ours will never disengage themselves from the slough of cowardice, pusillanimity, and fear. We shall always be glancing around and…
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Posted in 1st Mansions - Chapter 2
Self-Knowledge (Part I)
I do not know if I have explained this clearly: self-knowledge is so important that, even if you were raised right up to the heavens, I should like you never to relax your cultivation of it; so long as we…
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Posted in 1st Mansions - Chapter 2, Spiritual Warfare
Posted in 1st Mansions - Chapter 2, Spiritual Warfare
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