“Let nothing disturb thee, / Nothing affright thee; / All things are passing; /…”

Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

Teresa of Ávila The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1902

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Author: Teresa of Ávila
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Type: book
Year: 1902
Locator: Santa Teresa's Book-Mark
Translator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Rights: Public domainPublic domain in the USCC0, no rights reservedProtected work, short quotation
Check it: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1365

Verses Teresa kept in her breviary, in Longfellow's translation.

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Teresa of Ávila 1515–1582 · Spanish Carmelite nun, mystic and reformer; author of The Interior Castle and an autobiography. Wikipedia