God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
TERESA OF AVILALife is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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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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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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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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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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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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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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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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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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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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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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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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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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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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