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Teresa Of Avila Inspirational Quotes (164)

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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns so it is with man's mind.
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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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Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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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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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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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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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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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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The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face
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Teach by works more than words.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.
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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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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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