Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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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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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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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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