Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
TERESA OF AVILAThe feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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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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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Love draws forth love.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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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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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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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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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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