The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
TERESA OF AVILADo 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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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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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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