If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
TERESA OF AVILASettle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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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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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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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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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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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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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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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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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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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 constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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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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