We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Pain is never permanent.
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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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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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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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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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