Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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One always goes on as one begins.
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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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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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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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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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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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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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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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