Teresa of Avila Quotes — Page 16

Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Love

“It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.”

Law Saint Folly

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Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Hopeful

“Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.”

Dream Struggle One Day

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Love

“Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.”

Spiritual Prayer

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Grieving

“Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.”

Suffering Blessed

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Love

“How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.”

Men Believe Friendly

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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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Angry

“I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.”

Gratitude Perfection Sardines

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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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Spiritual

“Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.”

Self Perfect Exercise

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Wise

“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.”

People Giving Reality

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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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Philosophical

“Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.”

Moving Prayer Reflection

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