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 AVILAHappy the heart where love has come to birth.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Love draws forth love.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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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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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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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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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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