It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
TERESA OF AVILAFor pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
TERESA OF AVILALove turns work into rest.
TERESA OF AVILAPain is never permanent.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
TERESA OF AVILAIt constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
TERESA OF AVILAHe who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
TERESA OF AVILALove makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
TERESA OF AVILAMuch more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
TERESA OF AVILADo you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
TERESA OF AVILAThe life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
TERESA OF AVILADon’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
TERESA OF AVILAWe always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
TERESA OF AVILAThere is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
TERESA OF AVILAOur souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
TERESA OF AVILATo want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
TERESA OF AVILA