Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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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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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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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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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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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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