Teresa of Avila Quotes

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

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.

Christ moves along the pots and pans.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.