What did Teresa of Avila mean by: Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite. - Teresa of Avila Nun · Spain Copy
+ I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teresa of Avila, Prayer, Saint, 0 - Teresa of Avila Nun · Spain
+ People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teresa of Avila, 0 - Teresa of Avila Nun · Spain
+ I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teresa of Avila, Helping, Saint, 0 - Teresa of Avila Nun · Spain
+ What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teresa of Avila, Elsewhere, 0 - Teresa of Avila Nun · Spain
+ If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few! Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teresa of Avila, Catholic, Saint, 0 - Teresa of Avila Nun · Spain
+ What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people! Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teresa of Avila, Favors, 0 - Teresa of Avila Nun · Spain
+ Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teresa of Avila, Never Change, Passing, 0 - Teresa of Avila Nun · Spain
+ God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Teresa of Avila, Obedience, 0 - Teresa of Avila Nun · Spain
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Mystic and writer · France
It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification. - Jedediah Purdy
Yet the reality is that I’m a stage actor from the Midwest – probably the opposite of a shark agent. - Jeremy Piven Actor
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible. - Francoise Sagan Playwright · France
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite. - Frank Capra Film director · Italy
