How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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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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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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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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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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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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Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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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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