May God protect me from gloomy saints.
TERESA OF AVILAThe tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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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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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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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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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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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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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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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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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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