Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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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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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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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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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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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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