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On All Saints Day

St. Teresa of Avila

“One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.” – Saint Teresa of Avila.

To Roman Catholics, saints are super-Christians, marked out by their devotion, piety, and service to Christ. To Protestants, everyone who believes in Jesus is a saint.

I’m not sure what I believe. This is a sentence that can apply to about 90% of my own interior life. What I do know is that I want to be a saint.

~ S.K. Orr

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