After you die, you wear what you are.
TERESA OF AVILATeach by works more than words.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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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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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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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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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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