After you die, you wear what you are.
TERESA OF AVILAThe saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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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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We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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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.
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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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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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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Teach by works more than words.
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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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