Truth suffers, but never dies.
TERESA OF AVILAMay I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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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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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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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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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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