Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
TERESA OF AVILAGod prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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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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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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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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We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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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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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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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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