Teresa of Avila — Grateful Quotes

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Teresa of Avila Quotes

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Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Grateful

“I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.”

Hands Fall Blessed

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Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Grateful

“There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.”

Blessing Sorry Poverty

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Grateful

“Nothing is small if God accepts it.”

Ifs Accepting

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Grateful

“Thank God for the things that I do not own.”

Thank God

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Grateful

“God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.”

Positive Obedience

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Grateful

“Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.”

Jesus Prayer Queens

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Grateful

“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.”

Done Remember Humility

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Grateful

“I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.”

Mother Father Grace

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Grateful

“My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.”

Eye Memories Evil

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Grateful

“It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.”

Real Progress Humility

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Grateful

“Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.”

Patience Strive Abundance

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Grateful

“I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.”

Soul Desire Blessed

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