True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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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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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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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.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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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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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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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Love turns work into rest.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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If 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.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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