Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
TERESA OF AVILAMay God protect me from gloomy saints.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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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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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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