May God protect me from gloomy saints.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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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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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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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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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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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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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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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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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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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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