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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.

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.

Teresa of Avila
Faith, Inspiration, Heart

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

Teresa of Avila
Faith, Grateful, Heart

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

Teresa of Avila
Heart, Eye, Soul
Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.80, ICS Publications

Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.

Teresa of Avila
Spiritual, Selfish, Heart

Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

Teresa of Avila
Happiness, Heart, Birth
St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.283, A&C Black

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.

Teresa of Avila
Prayer, Father, Heart

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

Teresa of Avila
Heart, Giving, Wish
St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.30, Library of Alexandria

Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.

Teresa of Avila
Jesus, Heart, Names

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