Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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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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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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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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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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