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.
TERESA OF AVILALove makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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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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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Pain is never permanent.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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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.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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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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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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