It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
TERESA OF AVILA
Mental 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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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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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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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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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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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Teach by works more than words.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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