Love turns work into rest.
TERESA OF AVILABe gentle to all and stern with yourself.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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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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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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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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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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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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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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