What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change. — Teresa of Avila Doe 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 Apostles Copy Share Image
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it.… — Teresa of Avila Body Copy Share Image
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use. — Teresa of Avila Body Copy Share Image
We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in… — Teresa of Avila Different Copy Share Image
That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones. — Teresa of Avila Good work Copy Share Image
“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 Commandments Copy Share Image
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ… — Teresa of Avila Bless Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he… — Teresa of Avila Careless Copy Share Image
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 Abiding Copy Share Image
“Their heart does not allow them to practise duplicity: if they see their friend straying from the road, or committing any faults,… — Teresa of Ávila Duplicity Copy Share Image
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 Desire 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… — Teresa of Ávila Good thing Copy Share Image
Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to… — Teresa of Avila Contemplative Copy Share Image
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all. — Teresa of Avila Facts Copy Share Image
“In fact, all of your theological concepts may only serve to cool the fire of love in the will.” — Teresa of Ávila Cool love Copy Share Image
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear… — Teresa of Avila Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of… — Teresa of Avila Blessing Copy Share Image
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or… — Teresa of Avila Argue Copy Share Image
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him. — Teresa of Avila Friendship Copy Share Image
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open… — Teresa of Avila Alive Copy Share Image
Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will… — Teresa of Avila Bears Copy Share Image
Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity. — Teresa of Avila Humility 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 Ifs Copy Share Image
For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and… — Teresa of Avila And love Copy Share Image
Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer… — Teresa of Avila Accounts Copy Share Image
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