Teresa of Avila Quotes About Devil

Quotes about: Devil

• I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Fear, People, Devil

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.15, Courier Corporation

• Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer is the only way to amend one's life and without prayer it will never be mended. Let him not be tempted of the devil, as I was, to give up prayer on account of one's unworthiness. Let such a one rather believe that if he will only repent and pray, our Lord will still hear and answer.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Giving Up, Believe

• 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.

• 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.

  Teresa of Avila

  Running, Believe, Humility

  St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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