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.
TERESA OF AVILAStrive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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Love turns work into rest.
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Pain is never permanent.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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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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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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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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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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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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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in 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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