Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
TERESA OF AVILAAll things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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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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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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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 the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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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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