Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Pain is never permanent.
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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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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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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