The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
TERESA OF AVILATo want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Love draws forth love.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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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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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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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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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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