It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
TERESA OF AVILAIf we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
TERESA OF AVILAChrist moves along the pots and pans.
TERESA OF AVILAHow friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILAHappy the heart where love has come to birth.
TERESA OF AVILANo one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
TERESA OF AVILAThe closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
TERESA OF AVILADo you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
TERESA OF AVILAWe need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
TERESA OF AVILATeach by works more than words.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
TERESA OF AVILAMay God protect me from gloomy saints.
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 AVILAThere is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
TERESA OF AVILAThe feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
TERESA OF AVILAWe always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
TERESA OF AVILA