Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
TERESA OF AVILASouls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Pain is never permanent.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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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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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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