It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
TERESA OF AVILAGod deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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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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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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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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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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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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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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