Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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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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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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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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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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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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Pain is never permanent.
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