Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
TERESA OF AVILAOut of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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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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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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