To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILAChrist moves along the pots and pans.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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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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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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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Out 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.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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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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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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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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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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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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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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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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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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