Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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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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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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