"How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?"
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Teresa of Avila quotes (page 14 of 15)
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"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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"Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way."
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"We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him."
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"Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride."
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"Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart."
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"The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world."
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"It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day."
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"In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love."
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"Patience obtains everything."
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"Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation."
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"[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me."
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"I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me."
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"A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep."
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"Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient."
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"Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult."
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"There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them."
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"Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth."
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"The hour I have long wished for is now come."
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"While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue."
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