God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
TERESA OF AVILAGod prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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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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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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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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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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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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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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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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