Love draws forth love.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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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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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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Pain is never permanent.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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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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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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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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