If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
TERESA OF AVILAGod deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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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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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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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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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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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Love turns work into rest.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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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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