Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
TERESA OF AVILAHowever softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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All times are dangerous times.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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