True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
TERESA OF AVILAGod is even kinder than you think.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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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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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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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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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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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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Pain is never permanent.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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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