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.
TERESA OF AVILAThe feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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One always goes on as one begins.
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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 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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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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Pain is never permanent.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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