To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
TERESA OF AVILAIf we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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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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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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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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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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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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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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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