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.
TERESA OF AVILAOur souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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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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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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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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Teach by works more than words.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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