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.
TERESA OF AVILAEvery part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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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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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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