If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
TERESA OF AVILALet us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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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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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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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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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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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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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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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Love turns work into rest.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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