Christ moves along the pots and pans.
TERESA OF AVILAChrist moves along the pots and pans.
TERESA OF AVILALove draws forth love.
TERESA OF AVILASouls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
TERESA OF AVILAIf this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
TERESA OF AVILAOur body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
TERESA OF AVILAAbout the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
TERESA OF AVILASuffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
TERESA OF AVILADesire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
TERESA OF AVILAIn a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
TERESA OF AVILAHumility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
TERESA OF AVILAHe who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
TERESA OF AVILAMental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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 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 AVILAPrayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
TERESA OF AVILA