Love turns work into rest.
TERESA OF AVILATo have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Teach by works more than words.
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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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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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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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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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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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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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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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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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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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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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