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.
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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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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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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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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God is even kinder than you think.
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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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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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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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