No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
TERESA OF AVILAI am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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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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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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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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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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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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