The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is love alone that gives worth to all things.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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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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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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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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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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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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