Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
TERESA OF AVILAMuch 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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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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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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