God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
TERESA OF AVILAThere is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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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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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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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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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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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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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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Teach by works more than words.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Love turns work into rest.
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