If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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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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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.
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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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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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All times are dangerous times.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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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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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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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Love turns work into rest.
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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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