To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
TERESA OF AVILAAll times are dangerous times.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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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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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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