black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Teresa of Avila

Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death Live Oneself Quick
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
TERESA OF AVILA

Humility Lost Work
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILA

Experience Goodness Reach
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
TERESA OF AVILA

Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
After you die, you wear what you are.
TERESA OF AVILA

Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
TERESA OF AVILA

Afraid Death Live Way
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
TERESA OF AVILA

Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
TERESA OF AVILA

Change Hold People Quick Serious
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
TERESA OF AVILA

Feeling God Journey
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
TERESA OF AVILA

Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking
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

Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
TERESA OF AVILA

Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
Teach by works more than words.
TERESA OF AVILA

Teaching Word Work
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
TERESA OF AVILA

Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
TERESA OF AVILA

Act Love Need Prayer Word
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
TERESA OF AVILA

Acceptance Best God Praise

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Teresa of Avila Quotes