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 AVILATruth suffers, but never dies.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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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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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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