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How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

Source: Life, 1562; in The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Vol. 1, ed./tr. E. Allison Peers, 1946.
-- St Teresa of Avila, (Mar 28 1515-1582), Spanish mystic, poet; She was one of the great mystics and religious women of the Roman Catholic church; author of spiritual classics, e.g., The Interior Castle, 1575.

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