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.
TERESA OF AVILASuffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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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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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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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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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Union 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.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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