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Granting that we are always in the presence of God yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense for they as it were see that He is looking upon them while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.
Granting that we are always in the presence of God yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense for they as it were see that He is looking upon them while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.
Approximate author period: c. 1548 AD · renaissance
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- Teresa of Avila
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- Approximate author period: c. 1548 AD · renaissance
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Teresa of Ávila, based on documented lifetime 1515 to 1582. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174880 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution.
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