Teresa of Avila Quotes About Conformity

Quotes about: Conformity

• His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should give us, for He can rightly tell us that we don't know what we're asking for (cf. Mt. 20:22). The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer ? and don't forget this, because it's very important ? should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every possible effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Determination, Prayer

• If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

  Teresa of Avila

  Taken, Ignorance, Catholic

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.200, A&C Black

• Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

  Teresa of Avila

  People, Progress, Cheerful

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