Christ moves along 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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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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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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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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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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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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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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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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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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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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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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