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.
TERESA OF AVILAWhoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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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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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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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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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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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for 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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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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