Teresa of Avila Quotes About Contemplation

Quotes about: Contemplation

• Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

  Teresa of Avila

  Exercise, Self, Perfect

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  Teresa of Avila

  Blessed, Soul, Desire

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

• God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, People, Perfect

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.216, A&C Black

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