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.
TERESA OF AVILAAccustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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All 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.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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All times are dangerous times.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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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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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Love turns work into rest.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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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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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Love draws forth love.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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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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