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.
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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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of 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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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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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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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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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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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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It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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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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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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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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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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Love draws forth love.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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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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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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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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