Teresa of Avila — Spiritual Quotes

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Teresa of Avila Quotes

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Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Spiritual

“We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.”

Ideas Soul Beauty

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Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Spiritual

“We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.”

Different Prayer Praying

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Spiritual

“Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.”

One Thing Command

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Spiritual

“But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.”

Facts Waiting

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Spiritual

“Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.”

Christian Prayer Saint

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Spiritual

“In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.”

Thinking Love Prayer

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Spiritual

“Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.”

Soul Joy

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Spiritual

“Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.”

God Contentment

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Spiritual

“It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.”

Thinking Soul Wells

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Spiritual

“God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.”

Evil Patient Endurance

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Spiritual

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

Giving Soul Prayer

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