Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
TERESA OF AVILALove makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
-
-
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
TERESA OF AVILA -
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
TERESA OF AVILA -
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
TERESA OF AVILA -
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
TERESA OF AVILA -
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
TERESA OF AVILA -
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.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
TERESA OF AVILA -
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
TERESA OF AVILA -
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
TERESA OF AVILA -
One always goes on as one begins.
TERESA OF AVILA