If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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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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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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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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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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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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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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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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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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