The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
TERESA OF AVILAWe always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Love turns work into rest.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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Love draws forth love.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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