Truth suffers, but never dies.
TERESA OF AVILABe kind to all and severe to thyself.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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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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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Teach by works more than words.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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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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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 life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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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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