Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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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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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Pain is never permanent.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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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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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Teach by works more than words.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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