The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
TERESA OF AVILALove draws forth love.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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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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Love draws forth love.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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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.
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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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One always goes on as one begins.
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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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Pain is never permanent.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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