How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is love alone that gives worth to all things.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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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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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Love draws forth love.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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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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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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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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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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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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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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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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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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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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