Teresa of Avila Quotes - Page 3

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• Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

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  Love, Light, Giving

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• Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

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  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.80, ICS Publications

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• What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

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  People, Doe, Favors

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• The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

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  Spirit, Spirituality, God Within Us

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• 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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  Different, May, Praying

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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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  Peace, Motivation, Real

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

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  Honor, Friendly, Should

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1972). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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

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  Prayer, Humility, Catholic

  Attributed in "The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.

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  Jesus, Suffering, Trials

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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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  Self Control, Matter, Speak

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• There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

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  Humility, Saint, World

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1972). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.

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  Lacking

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• 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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  Sins Not, Sin

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.372, A&C Black

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• All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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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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  Reality, People, Giving

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• We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

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  Wings, Saint, Needs

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

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  Prayer, Practice, People

  Teresa Of Avila (2004). “The Interior Castle”, p.29, Penguin

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• From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

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  Silly, Saint, Devotion

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• People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

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  People, World, Littles

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.

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  Honesty, Sight, Authenticity

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.258, A&C Black

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• Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

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  Body, Earth, Christ

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• Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.

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  Humility, Lord, Redeemed

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• The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

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  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1897). “Santa Teresa: An Appreciation, with Some of the Best Passages of the Saint's Writings Selected”

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• True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

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  Perfect, God Love, Neighbour

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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• God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.

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  Hands, Voice, Feet

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