All times are dangerous times.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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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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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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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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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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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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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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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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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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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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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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