There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is love alone that gives worth to all things.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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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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Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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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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