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 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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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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All times are dangerous times.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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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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