God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
TERESA OF AVILALet nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Love turns work into rest.
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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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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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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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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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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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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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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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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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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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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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