It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
TERESA OF AVILAIt constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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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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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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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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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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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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