If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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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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Pain is never permanent.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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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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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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