Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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