God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
TERESA OF AVILATrue love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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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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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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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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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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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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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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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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