You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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