To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
TERESA OF AVILALet us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
-
-
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
TERESA OF AVILA -
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
TERESA OF AVILA -
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
TERESA OF AVILA -
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
TERESA OF AVILA -
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
TERESA OF AVILA -
One always goes on as one begins.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
TERESA OF AVILA -
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
TERESA OF AVILA -
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
TERESA OF AVILA -
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILA -
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
TERESA OF AVILA