Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
TERESA OF AVILAWhen we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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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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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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