Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
TERESA OF AVILANever do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
TERESA OF AVILAUnion 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.
TERESA OF AVILABut the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
TERESA OF AVILAThose who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
TERESA OF AVILAAbout the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
TERESA OF AVILATrue love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
TERESA OF AVILAConsider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
TERESA OF AVILAMental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
TERESA OF AVILALove makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
TERESA OF AVILADo not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
TERESA OF AVILAAnyone who truly loves God travels securely.
TERESA OF AVILAOut 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.
TERESA OF AVILALet nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
TERESA OF AVILAThere is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
TERESA OF AVILAWhat a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
TERESA OF AVILAIt is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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