All times are dangerous times.
TERESA OF AVILAEverything 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.
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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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Pain is never permanent.
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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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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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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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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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Love turns work into rest.
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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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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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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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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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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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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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