The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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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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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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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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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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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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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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