Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
TERESA OF AVILABlessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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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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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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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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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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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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