From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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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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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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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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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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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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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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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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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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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Love turns work into rest.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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