Teresa of Avila Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Eye, Compassion

• Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

• Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.

  Teresa of Avila

  Thinking, Looks, Christ

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.257, A&C Black

• We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.345, A&C Black

• Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Yield, Giving, Doe

  St Teresa of Avila, of Avila Teresa, Saint (2007). “The Way of Perfection”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

• Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

  Teresa of Avila

  Eye, Compassion, Hands

• There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, Suffering, Trials

• Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

  Teresa of Avila

  Body, Earth, Christ

• 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

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, Journey, Men

• Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sweet, Saint, Christ

• Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, Suffering, Christ

• If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, True Friend, Men

• The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Delicate Life, Suffering

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

• Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Eye, Thinking, Giving

• Christ moves along the pots and pans.

  Teresa of Avila

  Moving, Christ, Pot

• 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?

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, Merit, Christ

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.47, Jazzybee Verlag

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