The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
TERESA OF AVILAIf you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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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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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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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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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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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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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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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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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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