Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom moment to moment one can bear much.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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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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Desire 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.
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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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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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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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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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All times are dangerous times.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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