It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
TERESA OF AVILAThis body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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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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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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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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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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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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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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