God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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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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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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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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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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