Teresa of Avila Quotes

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
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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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
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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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
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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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau

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