Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
TERESA OF AVILAConsider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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One always goes on as one begins.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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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.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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