One always goes on as one begins.
TERESA OF AVILADesire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Pain is never permanent.
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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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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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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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