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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.

Teresa of Avila

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
TERESA OF AVILA

Important Love Yourself
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
TERESA OF AVILA

Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
TERESA OF AVILA

Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
Much 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.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
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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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
TERESA OF AVILA

Thinking Virtue Yourself
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
TERESA OF AVILA

Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
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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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
TERESA OF AVILA

Act Kindness Soul
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
TERESA OF AVILA

Himself Talk Thinking Voice
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death Live Oneself Quick

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