Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
TERESA OF AVILAHe who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within 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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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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Teach by works more than words.
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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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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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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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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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