True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
TERESA OF AVILAEach 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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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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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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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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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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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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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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