From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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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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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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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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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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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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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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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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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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