The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
TERESA OF AVILAOur 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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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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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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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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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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Love turns work into rest.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Pain is never permanent.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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