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Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.

Teresa of Avila

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We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
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How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Pain is never permanent.
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.
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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 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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Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.
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God never changes Patient endurance Attains to all things Who God possesses In nothing is wanting Alone God suffices.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns so it is with man's mind.
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