Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
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In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence
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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.
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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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After you die, you wear what you are.
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Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.
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[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.
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The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that dwelling be in which a King so mighty, so wise, and so pure, containing in Himself all good, can delight to rest? Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He told us, He created us in his own image and likeness.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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