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.
TERESA OF AVILAHow often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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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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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Love draws forth love.
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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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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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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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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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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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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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