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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.

Teresa of Avila

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
TERESA OF AVILA

Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
TERESA OF AVILA

Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
TERESA OF AVILA

Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
TERESA OF AVILA

Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
TERESA OF AVILA

Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Oneself Simplicity
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
TERESA OF AVILA

Angel Earth Weird
Remember 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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
Truth suffers, but never dies.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death One Liner Suffering Truth
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
TERESA OF AVILA

Freedom Ourselves Sin True

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