Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
TERESA OF AVILATo have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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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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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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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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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Love draws forth love.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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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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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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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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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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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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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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