What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
TERESA OF AVILAWhat peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
TERESA OF AVILAGod prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
TERESA OF AVILAIf this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
TERESA OF AVILAPeople in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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 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 AVILAMuch more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
TERESA OF AVILAHowever softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
TERESA OF AVILANever affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
TERESA OF AVILAAlways think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
TERESA OF AVILADo not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
TERESA OF AVILALove makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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 AVILASouls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
TERESA OF AVILALet us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
TERESA OF AVILA