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.
TERESA OF AVILAPeople in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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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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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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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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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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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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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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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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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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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.
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