Love turns work into rest.
TERESA OF AVILAMay I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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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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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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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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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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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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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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