Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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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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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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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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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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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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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It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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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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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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