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.
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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It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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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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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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He who has God finds he is lacking 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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One always goes on as one begins.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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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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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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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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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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