May God protect me from gloomy saints.
TERESA OF AVILAAny real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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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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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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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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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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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.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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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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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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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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