Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
TERESA OF AVILADo you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Pain is never permanent.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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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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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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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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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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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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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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