Teach by works more than words.
TERESA OF AVILAGod prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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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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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Love turns work into rest.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Pain is never permanent.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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