How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
TERESA OF AVILAGod is even kinder than you think.
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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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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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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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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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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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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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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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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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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