True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
TERESA OF AVILAAll blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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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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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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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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If 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.
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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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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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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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All times are dangerous times.
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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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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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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