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For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.


Teresa of Ávila

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MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The r...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, includin...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Peace begins with a smile.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a bro...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA It is love alone that gives worth to all things
ST. TERESA OF AVILA Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA We are all pencils in the hand of God.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and becau...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one perso...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in lo...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
ST. TERESA OF AVILA To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowe...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA