Teresa of Avila Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?

  Teresa of Avila

  Life, Wall, Sleep

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

• God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sleep, Humility, Trying

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.83, TAN Books

• A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sleep, Failing, Virtue

  Saint Teresa of Avila, Aeterna Press (1951). “The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus”, p.336, Aeterna Press

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