Teresa of Avila Quotes About Mercy

Quotes about: Mercy

• I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

  Teresa of Avila

  Blessed, Fall, Hands

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.48, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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.

• 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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