Love Quotes by Teresa of Ávila

Patience obtains everything.

— Teresa of Avila

God is even kinder than you think.

— Teresa of Avila

After you die, you wear what you are.

— Teresa of Avila

Love draws forth love.

— Teresa of Avila

Love turns work into rest.

— Teresa of Avila

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

— Teresa of Avila

Truth suffers, but never dies.

— Teresa of Avila

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

— Teresa of Avila

Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.

— Teresa of Avila

All things must come to its roots from where it is planted.

— Teresa of Avila

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

— Teresa of Avila

Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

— Teresa of Avila

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

— Teresa of Avila

What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us

— Teresa of Avila

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

— Teresa of Avila

“In fact, all of your theological concepts may only serve to cool the fire of love in the will.”

— Teresa of Ávila

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most…

— Teresa of Avila

We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which…

— Teresa of Avila

“Let the truth be in your hearts, as it will be if you practise meditation, and you will see clearly what love…

— Teresa of Ávila

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

— Teresa of Avila

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

— Teresa of Avila

Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.

— Teresa of Avila

“true perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbor, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect…

— Teresa of Avila

How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His…

— Teresa of Avila

The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or…

— Teresa of Avila

We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we…

— Teresa of Avila

It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part…

— Teresa of Avila

As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know…

— Teresa of Avila

In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not…

— Teresa of Avila

Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment…

— Teresa of Avila

It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally…

— Teresa of Avila

We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt…

— Teresa of Avila

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

— Teresa of Avila

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

— Teresa of Avila

It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

— Teresa of Avila

Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

— Teresa of Avila

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

— Teresa of Avila

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

— Teresa of Avila

Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

— Teresa of Avila

“I cannot understand how humility exists, or can exist, without love, or love without humility,”

— Teresa of Ávila