We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
TERESA OF AVILAUnion 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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 you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Pain is never permanent.
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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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