Teresa of Avila Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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

• In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

  Teresa of Avila

  Night, Light, Heaven

• 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

• Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

  Teresa of Avila

  Body, Earth, Christ

• If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

  Teresa of Avila

  Mean, Garden, Jewels

• If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.

  Teresa of Avila

  Attachment, Order, Soul

• To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.

  Teresa of Avila

  Angel, Perfection, Earth

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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