Christianity Quote by Santa Teresa de Jesús

“The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities.” quote by Santa Teresa de Jesús — Download Open image

““The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities.””

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“This Beloved of ours is merciful and good. Besides, he so deeply longs for our love that he keeps calling us to come closer. This voice of his is so sweet that the poor soul falls apart in the face of her own inability to instantly do whatever he asks of her. And so you can see, hearing him hurts…

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“Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)”

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“I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, or such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was in no sense a vision: I believe it is called mystical theology. The soul is suspended in such a way that it seems…

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“He has borne with thousands of foul and abominable sins which you have committed against Him, yet even they have not been enough to…

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“Christ has no body on Earth but ours.”

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“O infinite goodness of my God! It is thus that I seem to see both myself and Thee. O Joy of the angels, how I long, when I think of this, to be wholly consumed in love for Thee! How true it is that Thou dost bear with those who cannot bear Thee to be with them! Oh, how good…

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“For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself…

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“Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks…

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“If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.”

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“I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those who ought to be models…

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“I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and admirably descriptive…

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