You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
TERESA OF AVILAChrist moves along the pots and pans.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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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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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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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Do 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.
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Pain is never permanent.
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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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All times are dangerous times.
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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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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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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