Pain is never permanent.
TERESA OF AVILAThe closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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