The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
TERESA OF AVILAOh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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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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Love turns work into rest.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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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 thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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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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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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