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.
TERESA OF AVILAEverything 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Teach by works more than words.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Pain is never permanent.
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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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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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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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