About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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 AVILAIf you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
TERESA OF AVILAFrom heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
TERESA OF AVILAIf we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
TERESA OF AVILAHappy the heart where love has come to birth.
TERESA OF AVILAYou pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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 AVILAConsider 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 AVILAWe need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
TERESA OF AVILAThe life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
TERESA OF AVILAGod prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
TERESA OF AVILAIt is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
TERESA OF AVILAPrayer 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 AVILADo not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
TERESA OF AVILASouls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
TERESA OF AVILAPeople in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
TERESA OF AVILA