From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
TERESA OF AVILABut the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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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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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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