We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong:… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer;… — 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… — 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
