May God protect me from gloomy saints.
TERESA OF AVILAWhat peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Love turns work into rest.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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