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 All things Copy Share Image
Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again! — Teresa of Avila Healed 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 Courage Copy Share Image
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart. — Teresa of Avila Body Copy Share Image
Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards. — Teresa of Avila Comparison Copy Share Image
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials. — Teresa of Avila Affliction Copy Share Image
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who… — Teresa of Avila Doe Copy Share Image
“. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and… — Teresa of Ávila Contemplation Copy Share Image
Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a… — Teresa of Avila Hope Copy Share Image
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes. — Teresa of Avila All things 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 Freedom Copy Share Image
The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is… — Teresa of Avila Action Copy Share Image
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways. — Teresa of Avila Different Copy Share Image
May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved.… — Teresa of Avila Comes and goes Copy Share Image
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us. — Teresa of Avila God Copy Share Image
Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way… — Teresa of Avila Amendments Copy Share Image
“For, under the Lord, I owe it to such persons that I am not in hell; I was always very fond of… — Teresa of Ávila 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
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us. — Teresa of Avila Communication 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
“The truly humble person will have a genuine desire to be thought little of, and persecuted, and condemned unjustly, even in serious… — Teresa of Ávila Humble person Copy Share Image
