One always goes on as one begins.
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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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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