He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
TERESA OF AVILABe kind to all and severe to thyself.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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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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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Love turns work into rest.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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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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