Avila Quotes

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes. — Teresa Of Avila

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee! — Teresa Of Avila

I am the woman who glows in the dark, I'll stay awake forever if I have to. — Elena Avila

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbor, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be. — Teresa Of Avila

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes ... — Teresa Of Avila

It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are. — Teresa Of Avila

There are people whose nature it is to be very much cast down by small things. — Teresa Of Avila

You will never lack so much of the water of comfort that your thirst will be intolerable; — Teresa Of Avila

Truth suffers, but never dies. — Teresa Of Avila

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present. — Benjamin Avila

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways. — Teresa Of Avila

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer. — Teresa Of Avila

It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves. — Teresa Of Avila

Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself ... — Teresa Of Avila

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things. — Teresa Of Avila

Let the truth be in your hearts, as it will be if you practise meditation, and you will see clearly what love we are bound to have for our neighbors. — Teresa Of Avila

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us. — Teresa Of Avila

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again! — Teresa Of Avila

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us. — Teresa Of Avila

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies. — Teresa Of Avila

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler. — Teresa Of Avila

There is no reason why we should expect everyone else to travel by our own road, and — Teresa Of Avila

Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction ... don't let any prude tell you otherwise — Teresa Of Avila

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few! — Teresa Of Avila

All things must come to its roots from where it is planted. — Teresa Of Avila

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila — Mark Salzman

She was a femme fatale with creative license, and she was sharpening her pen just for me. — M.K. Williams

God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works. — Teresa Of Avila

That name
my conception of Him
extended to me
a hand that led to a place
where even His divine name could not exist.
Why? — Teresa Of Avila

Remember, my sisters, that if we are not good we are much more to blame than others. — Teresa Of Avila

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself. — Teresa Of Avila

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him. — Teresa Of Avila

Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die. — Teresa Of Avila

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it. — Teresa Of Avila

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices. — Teresa Of Avila

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. — Teresa Of Avila

Be kind to all and severe to thyself. — Teresa Of Avila

I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you. — Teresa Of Avila

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

Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us. — Teresa Of Avila

He was untamed perfection. — Claire Contreras

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite. — Teresa Of Avila

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole. — Teresa Of Avila

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks. — Teresa Of Avila

The hour I have long wished for is now come. — Teresa Of Avila

Either we are the brides of this great King or we are not. — Teresa Of Avila

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them. — Teresa Of Avila

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. — Teresa Of Avila

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds. — Teresa Of Avila

The best thing must be to flee from all to the All. — Teresa Of Avila

God is even kinder than you think. — Teresa Of Avila

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

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

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only. — Teresa Of Avila

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in it enters in diffrent places but it all becomes one. — Teresa Of Avila

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. — Teresa Of Avila

No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself. — Teresa Of Avila

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him. — Teresa Of Avila

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres. — Teresa Of Avila

God aids the valiant ... both to you and to me He will give the help needed. — Teresa Of Avila

This isn't my life. You are. — Claire Contreras

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway. — Teresa Of Avila

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words. — Teresa Of Avila

The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering — Teresa Of Avila

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost. — Teresa Of Avila

It is not so essential to think much as to love much. — Teresa Of Avila

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them. — Teresa Of Avila

Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end ... and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal. — Teresa Of Avila

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world. — Teresa Of Avila

From moment to moment one can bear much. — Teresa Of Avila

For only the body would die, whereas the loss of a soul is a great loss which is apparently without end; — Teresa Of Avila

Many people are good at talking and bad at understanding, — Teresa Of Avila

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things. — Teresa Of Avila

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. — Teresa Of Avila

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep. — Teresa Of Avila

Christ moves along the pots and pans. — Teresa Of Avila

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

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

That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works
I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones. — Teresa Of Avila

All things pass ... Patience attains all it strives for. — Teresa Of Avila

Pain is never permanent. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

His mouth felt like everything I envisioned heaven and hell must feel like: warm and welcoming, hot and seductive. — Claire Contreras

When the soul, through its own fault ... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all. — Teresa Of Avila

I don't define myself by boys who may or may not like me. — Rick Riordan

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials. — Teresa Of Avila

Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity. — Teresa Of Avila

One always goes on as one begins ... — Teresa Of Avila

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship. — Teresa Of Avila

Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all. — Teresa Of Avila

Do you even know what Avila is? — Anonymous

I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me. — Teresa Of Avila

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you. — Teresa Of Avila

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him. — Teresa Of Avila

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die. — Teresa Of Avila

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us. — Teresa Of Avila

God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices. — Teresa Of Avila

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing. — Teresa Of Avila