But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
TERESA OF AVILAIf we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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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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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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