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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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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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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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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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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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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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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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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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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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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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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