God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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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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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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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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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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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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