The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
TERESA OF AVILAThose who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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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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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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All times are dangerous times.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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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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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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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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