Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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Love turns work into rest.
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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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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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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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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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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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