After you die, you wear what you are.
TERESA OF AVILAWe 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Love turns work into rest.
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Each 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.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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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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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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