Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
TERESA OF AVILAMuch 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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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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Love draws forth love.
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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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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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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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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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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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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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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