Teresa of Avila Quotes

286 quotes · Saint, Mystic, Writer

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Teresa of Avila Quotes

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Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Grateful

“Much 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.”

Heart Father Prayer

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Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Spiritual

“How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.”

Strong Prayer Saint

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Courageous

“From moment to moment one can bear much.”

Moments Bears

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Confident

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

Power Catholic

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Determined

“Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.”

Mind Advice Determination

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Spiritual

“I don't know what heavy penance could have come to mind that frequently I would not have gladly undertaken rather than recollect myself in the practice of prayer.”

Prayer Practice Penance

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Grateful

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

Giving Running

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Love

“Love draws forth love.”

Love Draws

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Grateful

“How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.”

Should Honor Friendly

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Spiritual

“One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.”

Thinking Prayer Offering

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Angry

“Christ moves along the pots and pans.”

Moving Christ

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Angry

“If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!”

Way Catholic

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