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.
TERESA OF AVILAAbout the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Love turns work into rest.
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We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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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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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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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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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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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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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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