It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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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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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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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Teach by works more than words.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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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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