Teresa of Avila Quotes About Love
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Love draws forth love.
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It is not so essential to think much as to love much.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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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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The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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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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So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways.
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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 order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
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