Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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