It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Love draws forth love.
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