May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
TERESA OF AVILALove draws forth love.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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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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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Love turns work into rest.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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