Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
TERESA OF AVILAHappy the heart where love has come to birth.
TERESA OF AVILAThe tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom moment to moment one can bear much.
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 AVILAOut 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 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 AVILALet nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
TERESA OF AVILABlessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
TERESA OF AVILASouls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
TERESA OF AVILAIf we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
TERESA OF AVILAChrist moves along the pots and pans.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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 AVILALife is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
TERESA OF AVILAAnyone who truly loves God travels securely.
TERESA OF AVILA