It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
TERESA OF AVILAThere is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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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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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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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.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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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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