To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILAAll 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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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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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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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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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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