We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
TERESA OF AVILANo one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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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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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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