One always goes on as one begins.
TERESA OF AVILAHow friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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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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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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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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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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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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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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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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