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Peace in Prayer: Wisdom from Teresa of Avila is unavailable, but you can change that!

Sometimes prayer seems effortless. Other times, no matter who we are or what our vocation is in life, we are bored, distracted, or consumed by some other interest. The temptation to give up can be quite attractive. Teresa of Avila teaches us to both live and pray in our own reality. Then we can find God’s peace and his presence in the midst of our daily lives. This collection of her advice on...

But contemplation is something else, daughters. This is the mistake we all make, that if a person spends a little time each day thinking about his sins—for he is obliged to do that if he is a Christian more than in name—they immediately say he is a very contemplative soul and they want him to possess at once virtues as great as those a very contemplative soul is obliged to have; and even the person himself wants this, but is mistaken. In the beginning he didn’t know how to set up the game. He thought
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