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.
TERESA OF AVILAAlways think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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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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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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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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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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