Love turns work into rest.
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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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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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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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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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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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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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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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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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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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 Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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