Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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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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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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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All times are dangerous times.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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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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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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