It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
TERESA OF AVILAIf Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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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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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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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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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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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.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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