Saint Teresa of Avila Quotes

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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Motivational, Yourself, Gentle

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Peace, Ignorance, Real

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Religion, God, Learn

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Courage, Life, Everything

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.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Good, God, Person

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Tears, Prayers, Unanswered

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
Saint Teresa of Avila

God, Feeling, Journey

Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Pain, Permanent

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Care, Body, Needs

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Good, Experience, Gone

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Soul, Roots, Planted

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Tears, Prayers, Unanswered

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.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Work, God, Sleep

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Fear, Him, Half

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

Love, Yourself, Soul

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Water, Tree, Running

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.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Love, May, Small

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Bad, Turn, Habits

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Friendship, God, Nothing

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
Saint Teresa of Avila

God, Anyone, Truly

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
Saint Teresa of Avila

Lovely, House, Seen

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Power, Impossible, Easy

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Saint

Born: March 28, 1515

Died: October 4, 1582

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