There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
TERESA OF AVILAStrive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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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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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves 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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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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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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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Love turns work into rest.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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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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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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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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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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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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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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