Teresa of Avila

Books by Teresa of Avila

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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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... whoever has God needs nothing else. God alone suffices.
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Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!
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God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.
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There seems to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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I believe that honor and money nearly always go together... . Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
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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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