It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
TERESA OF AVILAThe life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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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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Love draws forth love.
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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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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Pain is never permanent.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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