Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
TERESA OF AVILAHowever softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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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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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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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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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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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Teach by works more than words.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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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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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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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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Pain is never permanent.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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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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