God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
TERESA OF AVILAAccustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Teach by works more than words.
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Pain is never permanent.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Love draws forth love.
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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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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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This 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.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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