Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
TERESA OF AVILAAnyone who truly loves God travels securely.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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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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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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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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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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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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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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