If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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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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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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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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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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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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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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All times are dangerous times.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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