Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
TERESA OF AVILAOut 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Teach by works more than words.
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Love draws forth love.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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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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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves 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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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 constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Pain is never permanent.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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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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