Teresa of Avila Quotes — Page 18

Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Courageous

“Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.”

Needs

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Teresa of Avila

Saint, Mystic, Writer

Philosophical

“I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.”

Believe Running Humility

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Love

“It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.”

Way Love

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Spiritual

“The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.”

God Best Things

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Grateful

“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.”

Mother Father Grace

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Spiritual

“I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.”

Men Spiritual Evil

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Spiritual

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

One Thing Conscience

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Spiritual

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

Waiting Facts

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Spiritual

“May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.”

May Wind Comes And Goes

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Spiritual

“[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.”

Moving Done Time To Move On

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Grateful

“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.”

Eye Memories Evil

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Grateful

“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.”

Real Progress Humility

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