In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
TERESA OF AVILANever do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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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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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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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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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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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One always goes on as one begins.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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It is love alone that gives worth 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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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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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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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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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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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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