Avila Quotes
- Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila,… — Robert Barron
- St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction… — Thomas Keating
- It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with… — Rachel Naomi Remen
- St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. — Malcolm Muggeridge