All times are dangerous times.
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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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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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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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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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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