Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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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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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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All times are dangerous times.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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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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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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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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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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