Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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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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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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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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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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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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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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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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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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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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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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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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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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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