Teresa of Avila Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

  Teresa of Avila

  Real, Soul, Principles

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.31, Jazzybee Verlag

• It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Daughter, Mother

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.25, A&C Black

• It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sins Not, Sin

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.372, A&C Black

• Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care.

  Teresa of Avila

  Inspirational, Life, Self

• Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sin, Habit, Bad Habits

• 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

• Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.

  Teresa of Avila

  Determination, Advice, Mind

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.178, A&C Black

• How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

  Teresa of Avila

  Thinking, Too Much, Sin

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

• 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”

• You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.

  Teresa of Avila

  Perfect, Effort, Sin

  Saint Teresa of Avila, Aeterna Press (1901). “The Way of Perfection”, p.50, Aeterna Press

• 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

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