How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
TERESA OF AVILABe gentle to all and stern with yourself.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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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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Pain is never permanent.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Love draws forth love.
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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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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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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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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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