Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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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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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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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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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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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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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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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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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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 have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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