Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
TERESA OF AVILAThose who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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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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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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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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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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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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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 things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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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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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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