In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
TERESA OF AVILAIn light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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.
TERESA OF AVILAPain is never permanent.
TERESA OF AVILAHe who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
TERESA OF AVILAAll blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
TERESA OF AVILAUnion 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 AVILAHow friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILAIf Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
TERESA OF AVILAThere 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 AVILARemember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
TERESA OF AVILAThe feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
TERESA OF AVILAYou pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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 AVILAAccustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
TERESA OF AVILAWhoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
TERESA OF AVILA