If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
TERESA OF AVILAHumility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Teach by works more than words.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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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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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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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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