For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
TERESA OF AVILALet us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Teach by works more than words.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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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 be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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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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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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