It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
TERESA OF AVILAPeople in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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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 at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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