After you die, you wear what you are.
TERESA OF AVILAWhat a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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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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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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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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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.
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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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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Pain is never permanent.
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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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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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