Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
TERESA OF AVILAHumility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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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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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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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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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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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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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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