Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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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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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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