Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom moment to moment one can bear much.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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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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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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One always goes on as one begins.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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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 feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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