If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
TERESA OF AVILASouls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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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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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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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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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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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