Teresa of Avila Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

• If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

  Teresa of Avila

  Practice, Perfection, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodriguez, Stephen J. Connor (1997). “The Wisdom of Teresa of Avila: Selections from the Interior Castle”, p.68, Paulist Press

• If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

  Teresa of Avila

  Perfection, Suffering, Reason

• I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

  Teresa of Avila

  Gratitude, Perfection, Sardines

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

• 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”

• True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

  Teresa of Avila

  Perfect, God Love, Neighbour

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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