The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
TERESA OF AVILAHowever softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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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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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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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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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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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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All times are dangerous times.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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