After you die, you wear what you are.
TERESA OF AVILAGod prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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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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Pain is never permanent.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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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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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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