Teach by works more than words.
TERESA OF AVILASouls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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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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Love turns work into rest.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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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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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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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 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.
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All times are dangerous times.
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