Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
TERESA OF AVILAGod prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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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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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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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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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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