The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
TERESA OF AVILAThe life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Pain is never permanent.
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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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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.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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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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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Love turns work into rest.
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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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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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.
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We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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