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.
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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All times are dangerous times.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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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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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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