Teresa of Avila Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

• When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

  Teresa of Avila

  Evil, Water, Soul

  St. Teresa of Avila (2012). “Interior Castle”, p.20, Courier Corporation

• God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

  Teresa of Avila

  Evil, Endurance, Patient

• If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

  Teresa of Avila

  Children, Evil, Giving

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  Teresa of Avila

  Memories, Eye, Evil

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1962). “Life of Saint Teresa: Written by Herself”

• Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood.

  Teresa of Avila

  Evil, Soul, Wish

• I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Men, Evil

  Teresa of Avila (2013). “The Interior Castle”, p.16, Lulu.com

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