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Teresa Of Avila Inspirational Quotes (164)

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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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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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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
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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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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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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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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
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Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?
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We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
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In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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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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God, deliver me from sullen saints.
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How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
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