Top 100 Teresa Of Avila Quotes
#1. It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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#2. Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.
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#5. It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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#6. We should pray most regularly for those who give us light.
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#7. There is no reason why we should expect everyone else to travel by our own road, and
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#8. But to get to know God's friends is a very good way of "having" Him;
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#10. However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
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#11. Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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#13. How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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#14. For only the body would die, whereas the loss of a soul is a great loss which is apparently without end;
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#16. If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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#17. I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!
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#18. I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'
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#20. That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works
I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.
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#21. I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.
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#22. It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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#23. I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.
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#24. At first it may cause a good deal of trouble, for the body insists on its rights, not understanding that if it refuses to admit defeat it is, as it were, cutting off its own head.
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#25. Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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#26. It is quite important to withdraw from all unnecessary cares and business, as far as compatible with the duties of one's state of life, in order to enter the second mansion.
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#27. 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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#28. When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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#29. To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
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#31. Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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#32. This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged ...
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#33. How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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#34. There are people whose nature it is to be very much cast down by small things.
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#35. Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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#36. God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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#37. So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways.
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#38. Let us not fail him; do not fear that he will fail you. And if some time he should fail you, it will be for a greater good. The
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#39. Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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#40. We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God ...
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#41. Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better.
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#42. [On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me ...
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#43. Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.
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#44. 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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#46. God's will is that no bounds should be set to His works.
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#48. It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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#49. 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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#50. Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.
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#51. It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.
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#52. God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.
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#53. But here the Lord asks only two things of us: love for His Majesty and love for our neighbour. It is for these two virtues that we must strive, and if we attain them perfectly we are doing His will and so shall be united with Him.
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#54. Never suppose that either the evil or the good that you do will remain secret, however strict may be your enclosure.
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#56. We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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#58. We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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#59. There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
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#60. Granting that 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; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.
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#61. 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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#62. It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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#63. Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.
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#64. 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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#65. It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
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#66. Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.
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#67. 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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#68. Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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#69. Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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#70. We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.
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#71. Give me, if you will, prayers;
Or let me know dryness,
An abudance of devotion,
Or if not, then barrenness.
In you alone, Sovereign Majesty,
I find my peace,
What do you want of me?
Yours I am, fo ryou I was born:
What do you want of me?
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#72. To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
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#74. The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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#76. We shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves,
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#79. We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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#80. That name
my conception of Him
extended to me
a hand that led to a place
where even His divine name could not exist.
Why?
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#81. It is a good proof and test of our love if we can bear with such faults and not be shocked by them. Others, in their turn, will bear with your faults, which, if you include those of which you are not aware, must be much more numerous.
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#82. 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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#83. For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.
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#84. Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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#85. I cannot understand how humility exists, or can exist, without love, or love without humility,
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#86. Do you suppose, daughters, that He is alone when He comes to us? Do you not see that His most holy Son says: "Who art in the Heavens"? Surely such a King would not be abandoned by His courtiers. They stay with Him and pray to Him on our behalf and for our welfare, for they are full of charity.
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#87. I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.
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#89. Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
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#90. Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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#91. It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.
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#92. In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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#93. Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
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#94. I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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#95. 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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#96. Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in it enters in diffrent places but it all becomes one.
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#97. God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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#99. Will tell you, for I am not sure if you properly understand as yet how much we owe to the Lord for bringing us to a place where we are so free from business matters, occasions of sin and the society of worldly people.
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#100. For, under the Lord, I owe it to such persons that I am not in hell; I was always very fond of asking them to commend me to God, and so I prevailed upon them to do so.
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