It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
TERESA OF AVILAThe life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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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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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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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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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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God is even kinder than you think.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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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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