The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
TERESA OF AVILAThe feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
TERESA OF AVILAThere seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
TERESA OF AVILAIf you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
TERESA OF AVILAGod deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
TERESA OF AVILABut the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer 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 AVILAI am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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 AVILALet us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom moment to moment one can bear much.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
TERESA OF AVILAIf we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
TERESA OF AVILAHow friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILADon’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
TERESA OF AVILAGod is even kinder than you think.
TERESA OF AVILAYou pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
TERESA OF AVILA