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Soul Quotes by Teresa of Avila
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects…
- Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
- All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
- What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear…
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
- I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as…
- 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…
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are…
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend…
- 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…
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed…
- Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If…
- Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that…
- Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God.…
- We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells…
- The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire…
- True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes....
- Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did…
- I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as…
- Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
- It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather…
- Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.
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- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt