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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

Teresa of Avila

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
TERESA OF AVILA

Important Love Yourself
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death Live Oneself Quick
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
TERESA OF AVILA

Church Silence Women
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
TERESA OF AVILA

Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
TERESA OF AVILA

Humility Lost Work
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
TERESA OF AVILA

Curiosity Talk Yourself
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
TERESA OF AVILA

Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
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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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
Love draws forth love.
TERESA OF AVILA

Love One Liner
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy

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