Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
-
-
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
TERESA OF AVILA -
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
TERESA OF AVILA -
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
TERESA OF AVILA -
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 -
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
TERESA OF AVILA -
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
TERESA OF AVILA -
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
TERESA OF AVILA -
There 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 AVILA -
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA -
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
TERESA OF AVILA -
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.
TERESA OF AVILA -
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
TERESA OF AVILA