Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
TERESA OF AVILAEach 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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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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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Love turns work into rest.
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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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