For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
TERESA OF AVILAPeople in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Love turns work into rest.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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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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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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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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