Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
TERESA OF AVILAMental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Love turns work into rest.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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