Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
TERESA OF AVILALet there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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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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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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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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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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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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