Saint Teresa Of Avila Quotes

Saint Teresa Of Avila (19)

Birth:	28th March, 1515
Death:	4th October, 1582
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Saint, Theologian, Writer

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• Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

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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 know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

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• Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.

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• Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

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• Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

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• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

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• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

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• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

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• God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

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• All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

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• I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

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• It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found – not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

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• Pain is never permanent.

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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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• The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

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• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

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• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

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• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can – namely, surrender our will and fulfill God’s will in us.

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