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.
TERESA OF AVILATrust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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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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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Pain is never permanent.
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Love draws forth love.
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Love turns work into rest.
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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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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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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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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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