Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
TERESA OF AVILATo reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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God is even kinder than you think.
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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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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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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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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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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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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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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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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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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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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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