Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
TERESA OF AVILADo not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Teach by works more than words.
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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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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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