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If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.
Source: Conception of Love of God, 1571; in Selected Writings of St. Teresa of Avila, ed. E. Allison Peers, tr., William J. Doheny, 1950.
-- 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.