It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
TERESA OF AVILAIf this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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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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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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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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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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