However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
TERESA OF AVILAIf we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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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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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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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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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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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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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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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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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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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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