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.
TERESA OF AVILAAll blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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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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God is even kinder than you think.
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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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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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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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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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