Limbs Quote by Teresa of Avila Download Open image “Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.” — Teresa of Avila ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Limbs Paralyzed People Practice Prayer Soul Spirituality
“souls without prayer are like people whose bodies or limbs are paralysed: they possess feet and hands but they cannot control them.” — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer. — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
“There are many souls who think they do not have prayer, yet they have much; and, on the contrary, others who think they have… — Jacques Philippe Copy Share Image
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls. — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
“They (surgeons) worry that praying makes them look weak and lacking in confidence. But what physician can't admit he or she could use help?… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Of the good things they do many will pass unnoticed, or will even not be considered good at all; but they need not fear… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“you will never lack so much of the water of comfort that your thirst will be intolerable;” — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“an unrestrained infatuation with ecstasy and other extraordinary phenomena developed. These experiences were thought of as something to be obtained at all costs. Among… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
“The Lord has no body now on earth but yours, no hands now but yours, no feet now but yours. Yours are the eyes… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth;… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step… — David Wong Copy Share Image
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
