Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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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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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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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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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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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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Teach by works more than words.
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Love draws forth love.
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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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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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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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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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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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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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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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