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.
TERESA OF AVILAYou pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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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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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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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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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.
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All times are dangerous times.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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