Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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All times are dangerous times.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Love turns work into rest.
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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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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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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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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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