Teresa of Avila Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Done, Remember

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1957). “The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

• 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

• There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

  Teresa of Avila

  Attachment, Self, Tears

• 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”

• If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.

  Teresa of Avila

  Attachment, Order, Soul

• I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.

  Teresa of Avila

  Running, Believe, Humility

  St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

• Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

  Teresa of Avila

  Thinking, Opposites, Firsts

• 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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