Teresa of Avila Quotes - Page 6

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• If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Flower, Thinking, Hoe

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

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• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  Teresa of Avila

  God, Humility, Journey

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• From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

  Teresa of Avila

  Night, Heaven, Looks

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• Love draws forth love.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Draws

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

  Teresa of Avila

  Patience, Strive, Strife

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• I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Fear, Humility, Half

  "The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of The Order of Our Lady of Carmel" by Teresa of Avila, translated by David Lewis, (Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject"), 1904.

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• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Practice, Desire

  Saint Teresa of Avila (1976). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1”, p.96, ICS Publications

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• Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.

  Teresa of Avila

  Command, One Thing, Conscience

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• Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Ideas, Saint

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

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• Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Mind, Thorns

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• If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

  Teresa of Avila

  Fall, Sometimes, Discouraged

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• Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.

  Teresa of Avila

  Blessed, Joy, Soul

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• Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Father, Heart

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• I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

  Teresa of Avila

  Writing, Hands, Wish

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Thank God for the things that I do not own.

  Teresa of Avila

  Thank God

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• 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

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• God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

  Teresa of Avila

  Positive, Penance, Obedience

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1951). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• 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”

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• Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

  Teresa of Avila

  Risk, Facts, Lost

  Saint Teresa of Avila (1976). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1”, p.151, ICS Publications

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• God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, People, Perfect

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.216, A&C Black

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• We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.

  Teresa of Avila

  Death, Spring, Eye

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• Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, People, Slave

  Teresa of Avila (2013). “The Interior Castle”, p.269, Lulu.com

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• If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

  Teresa of Avila

  Children, Evil, Giving

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Rivers, Water

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love You, Suffering, Trouble

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