It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
TERESA OF AVILAIt 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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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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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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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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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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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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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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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