Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILATeach by works more than words.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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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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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of 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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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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One always goes on as one begins.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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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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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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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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