To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
TERESA OF AVILAGod is even kinder than you think.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Love turns work into rest.
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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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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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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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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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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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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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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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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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