black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

Teresa of Avila

Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
TERESA OF AVILA

Curiosity Talk Yourself
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
TERESA OF AVILA

Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Enough God Religious Soft Speak
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
TERESA OF AVILA

Affirmation True
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILA

Experience Goodness Reach
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
TERESA OF AVILA

Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
TERESA OF AVILA

Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
TERESA OF AVILA

Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
TERESA OF AVILA

Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
TERESA OF AVILA

Change God Patience Strive
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
TERESA OF AVILA

Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
TERESA OF AVILA

Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
TERESA OF AVILA

Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
TERESA OF AVILA

Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
TERESA OF AVILA

Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Teresa of Avila Quotes