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.
TERESA OF AVILATrust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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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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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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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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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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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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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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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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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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