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.
TERESA OF AVILAYou pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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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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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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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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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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Pain is never permanent.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Teach by works more than words.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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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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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.
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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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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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