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.
TERESA OF AVILALife is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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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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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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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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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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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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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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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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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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All times are dangerous times.
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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