There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
TERESA OF AVILAConsider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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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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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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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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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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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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