There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
TERESA OF AVILARemember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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