For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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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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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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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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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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Love draws forth love.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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