If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
TERESA OF AVILA
TERESA OF AVILA
Teresa of Avila on friendship
Teresa of Avila124 quotes“If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!”
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila 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.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila After you die, you wear what you are.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila 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.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila One always goes on as one begins.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila 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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