Truth suffers, but never dies.
TERESA OF AVILAOur 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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.
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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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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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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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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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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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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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