Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
TERESA OF AVILAChrist has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Pain is never permanent.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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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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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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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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