Teresa of Avila Quotes — Page 15

Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Inspired

“What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.”

Life Doe Miserable

♥ 9

Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Anxious

“I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.”

Fear Humility Half

♥ 9

Hopeful

“Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.”

Patience Patient

♥ 9

Courageous

“God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.”

Giving Helping

♥ 9

Determined

“That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.”

Mean Saint Rewards

♥ 9

Wise

“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.”

Soul May Intellect

♥ 9

Love

“We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God.”

Believe May Love You

♥ 9

Determined

“The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.”

Mean Soul Prayer

♥ 9

Hopeful

“I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them, thinking of Him for Whose service they were undertaken and remembering that Our Lord would be praised and the most Holy Sacrament would dwell in the house I was going to found... It should be a great consolation to us - though many of us do not think of it - that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, dwells as He does in so many places in the most Holy Sacrament”

Men Jesus Journey

♥ 9

Courageous

“His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.”

Spring Saint Temptation

♥ 9

Love

“When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.”

Soul Order Joy

♥ 9

Inspired

“When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.”

Soul Evil Water

♥ 9