Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
TERESA OF AVILAMuch more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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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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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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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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