Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
TERESA OF AVILATrust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Love turns work into rest.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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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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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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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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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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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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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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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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