Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
TERESA OF AVILAHow friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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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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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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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.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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Pain is never permanent.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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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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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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