Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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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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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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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.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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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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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Teach by works more than words.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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