Teresa of Avila Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Father, Heart

• I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

  Teresa of Avila

  Mother, Father, Grace

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

• My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

  Teresa of Avila

  Brother, Children, Father

  Saint Teresa of Avila, Aeterna Press (1951). “The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus”, p.41, Aeterna Press

• [On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

  Teresa of Avila

  Father, Blessing, Comfort

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