Asking Quote by Teresa of Avila Download Open image “You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.” — Teresa of Avila ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asking Compliment God Great things Pay Prayer
We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The highest compliment we can give to God, our Creator, is to thoroughly enjoy the gift of life. One should never look a gift… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much. — Eydie Gorme Copy Share Image
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you are worried that no one has sent you nice notes, given you credit, or offered a compliment that you can put in an Encouragement File, I have a solution. Write yourself some nice letters. Write down what you like about yourself. List your strengths. List your accomplishments. List some of the good things you’ve done for others. When… — Joel Osteen Copy Share
“Of the good things they do many will pass unnoticed, or will even not be considered good at all; but they need not fear… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
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… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“you will never lack so much of the water of comfort that your thirst will be intolerable;” — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“an unrestrained infatuation with ecstasy and other extraordinary phenomena developed. These experiences were thought of as something to be obtained at all costs. Among… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
“The Lord has no body now on earth but yours, no hands now but yours, no feet now but yours. Yours are the eyes… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth;… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Stop asking yourself how or why and tell yourself you can." - Charmainism” — Charmaine Smith Ladd Copy Share Image
Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?' — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
