It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Teach by works more than words.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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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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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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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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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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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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