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Saint Teresa of Avila Quotes

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

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.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

– Saint Teresa of Avila

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

– Saint Teresa of Avila

How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

– Saint Teresa of Avila

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found – not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

In 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.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

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