It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
TERESA OF AVILAIf this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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Love turns work into rest.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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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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Love draws forth love.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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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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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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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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