The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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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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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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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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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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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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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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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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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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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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