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One Quotes by Teresa of Avila
- 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…
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this…
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to…
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in…
- 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…
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God…
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he…
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No…
- Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If…
- Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
- One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time…
- Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not…
- The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
- In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
- 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…
- Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it…
- The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These…
- I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.
- Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal…
- About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
- Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.
- Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it…
- Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding…
- Never when in authority rebuke any one in anger, but only when anger has passed away; and so shall the rebuke bring forth good fruit.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle