To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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All times are dangerous times.
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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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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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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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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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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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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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Pain is never permanent.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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