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 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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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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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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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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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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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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