If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Pain is never permanent.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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