To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILAAnyone who truly loves God travels securely.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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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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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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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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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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All times are dangerous times.
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