black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Much 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 Avila

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
TERESA OF AVILA

Afraid Death Live Way
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
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

Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
Love draws forth love.
TERESA OF AVILA

Love One Liner
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
TERESA OF AVILA

Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
TERESA OF AVILA

Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
TERESA OF AVILA

Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
TERESA OF AVILA

Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
Truth suffers, but never dies.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death One Liner Suffering Truth
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
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

Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
TERESA OF AVILA

Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Security Travel True
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
TERESA OF AVILA

Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILA

Experience Goodness Reach

Much 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Much 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Teresa of Avila Quotes