God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
TERESA OF AVILAOur body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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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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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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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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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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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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