Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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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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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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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