The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
TERESA OF AVILAThere is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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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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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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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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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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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Teach by works more than words.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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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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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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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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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 you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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