Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Let nothing Disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself. — Teresa of Avila 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
