When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
TERESA OF AVILAWhen we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
TERESA OF AVILAAny real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
TERESA OF AVILAOh, 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 AVILABlessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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 AVILAWhat a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
TERESA OF AVILAIt is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
TERESA OF AVILAWe 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 AVILAAll times are dangerous times.
TERESA OF AVILAIf we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
TERESA OF AVILANever do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
TERESA OF AVILAAll 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 AVILASouls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
TERESA OF AVILALet there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
TERESA OF AVILAUnion is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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 AVILA