There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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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 important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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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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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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All times are dangerous times.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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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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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Love draws forth love.
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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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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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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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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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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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