Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILAAny real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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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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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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