Saint Teresa of Avila
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clearly the advantage w... ST. TERESA OF AVILA We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God'... ST. TERESA OF AVILA If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a... ST. TERESA OF AVILA I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. ST. TERESA OF AVILA O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic... ST. TERESA OF AVILA The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same. ST. TERESA OF AVILA Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's min... ST. TERESA OF AVILA There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ST. TERESA OF AVILA Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. ST. TERESA OF AVILA Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself. ST. TERESA OF AVILA Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. ST. TERESA OF AVILA How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee? ST. TERESA OF AVILA Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li... ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of ... ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is love alone that gives worth to all things ST. TERESA OF AVILA If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a... ST. TERESA OF AVILA Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ... ST. TERESA OF AVILA What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people! ST. TERESA OF AVILA To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. ST. TERESA OF AVILA Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage ... ST. TERESA OF AVILA Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God suffi... ST. TERESA OF AVILA Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. SAINT TERESA Let nothing disturb you,TERESA OF ÁVILA Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through w... TERESA OF ÁVILA Christ has no body now on earth but yours,TERESA OF ÁVILA I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of th... TERESA OF ÁVILA God save us from gloomy saints! TERESA OF ÁVILA Thank God for the things that I do not own. TERESA OF ÁVILA I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of f... TERESA OF ÁVILA I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those wh... TERESA OF ÁVILA . . . it is presumptuous in me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best f... TERESA OF ÁVILA May today there be peace within. TERESA OF ÁVILA The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to ... TERESA OF ÁVILA Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself. TERESA OF ÁVILA It is love alone that gives worth to all things. TERESA OF ÁVILA Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. TERESA OF ÁVILA For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, t... TERESA OF ÁVILA If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies. TERESA OF ÁVILA If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill eac... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If you judge people, you have no time to love them. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often th... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how ... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwan... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them w... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; a... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be u... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left ... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is ou... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, conv... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA it doesn't matter who it is, and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so m... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The fruit of faith is love MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Good works are links that form a chain of love. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Facing the media is more difficult than bathing a leper. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Intense love does not measure; it just gives MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I think I'm more difficult than critical. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be w... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easie... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA In the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the crippled, of the homeless, of the blind, in their na... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The r... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, includin... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Peace begins with a smile. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a bro... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We are all pencils in the hand of God. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and becau... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one perso... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We can do no great things; only small things with great love. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in lo... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the conte... 
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. 
My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always ... 
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I ... 
His back was to me and he was wearing pajama bottoms and nothing else. His shoulders, the smooth mus... 
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. 
Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it woul... 
But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized lif... 
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It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love.<... 
I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as ... 
Nilipozaliwa nilipendwa na kuogopwa, watu walicheza na mimi lakini mimi sikucheza nao. Niliwapenda. 
Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today I may not disappoint any ... 
Lucas couldn’t have imagined that he would have ever felt so alone. No family, no friends. Even hi... 
And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that h... 
If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do ... 
I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa,” said Will. “Because it will be as if I were waiting for hi... 
I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked get... 
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. H... 
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my deli... 
Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 God has been very good to me, for I never dwell... 
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. 
To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which... 
I froze. It was not guilt that froze me. I had taught myself never to feel guilt. It was not a ghast... 
Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my ... 
I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put... 
I’ll be your family now,” he says.
I couldn’t talk about it, about them—not yet. So I breathed “Later” and hooked my feet aroun... 
I hoped my solitude would help me reclaim my innocence, remember who I’d been, to find who I wante... 
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be p... 
I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about w... 
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be prono... 
If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it w... 
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that ... 
I struggled to find the words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words stron... 
When I was seven, I had to stay home for several weeks because of some ailment, whereupon my father ... 
I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me," Will said, his bloody hand on the hilt of the ... 
I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. I was re... 
There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners.... 
I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was alwa... 
I knew with his mentality, his ego, he was gonna try to knock me out, which was gonna allow me to re... 
I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only a... 
We have met with so overwhelming an affliction in the death of our beloved Willie, a being too preci... 
I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help m... 
Thank you God for always guiding me and holding my hand. I feel secure in the knowledge that you are... 
The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a gi... 
There was a time when I had all of his attention and loved it. As much as I wanted him to leave me a... 
I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its mea... 
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these... 
Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground... 
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. 
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of... 
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. 