Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
TERESA OF AVILAAnyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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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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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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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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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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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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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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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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