If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
TERESA OF AVILALet 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Love draws forth love.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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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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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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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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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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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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