People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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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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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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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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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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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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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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