Teresa of Avila Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Inspirational, Humility, Catholic

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  Teresa of Avila

  Inspirational, Courage, Lying

  "The Little Lamp" by Eknath Easwaran, (p. 80), 1981.

• We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

  Teresa of Avila

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.345, A&C Black

• May God protect me from gloomy saints.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Inspiration, Saint

• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Humility, Catholic

  Attributed in "The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

• 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

• Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Angel, Saint

  "The Way of Perfection".

• Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Yield, Giving, Doe

  St Teresa of Avila, of Avila Teresa, Saint (2007). “The Way of Perfection”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Catholic, Saint

• One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Thinking, Offering

• Truth suffers, but never dies.

  Teresa of Avila

  Suffering, Saint, Dies

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

• The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Adversity, Forgiving, Saint

• Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Secret, Saint

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

• From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

  Teresa of Avila

  Silly, Saint, Devotion

• There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Saint, World

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1972). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

• Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Christian, Pregnancy

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

• That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.

  Teresa of Avila

  Mean, Saint, Rewards

• It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Justice, Soul

• Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.

  Teresa of Avila

  Thinking, Suffering, Saint

• Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Prayer, Saint

• I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Saint, Want

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

• Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Wicked, Saint

  St Teresa of Avila (2006). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

• You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Prayer, Saint

• Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Moving, Reflection

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodriguez, Stephen J. Connor (1997). “The Wisdom of Teresa of Avila: Selections from the Interior Castle”, p.33, Paulist Press

• The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Mean, Soul

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