Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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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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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Pain is never permanent.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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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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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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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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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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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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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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