Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
TERESA OF AVILADo not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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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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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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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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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Pain is never permanent.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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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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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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