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St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance
Attaineth to...

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Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.

Source: Nothing disturbs thee, aka Saint Teresa,s Bookmark, in An Anthology of Spanish Poetry, ed. John A. Crow, 1979.
-- 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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