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Teresa of Ávila1515–1582

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness.

Teresa of Ávila on God

First Mansions, Ch. 2: The Human Soul, as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman

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