About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
-
-
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
TERESA OF AVILA -
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILA -
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
TERESA OF AVILA -
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
TERESA OF AVILA -
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
TERESA OF AVILA -
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
TERESA OF AVILA -
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
TERESA OF AVILA -
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
TERESA OF AVILA -
One always goes on as one begins.
TERESA OF AVILA -
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
TERESA OF AVILA -
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 AVILA -
After you die, you wear what you are.
TERESA OF AVILA -
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
TERESA OF AVILA