Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear 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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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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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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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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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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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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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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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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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