Avila Quotes
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Avila Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
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
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
A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.
— Teresa Of Avila
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
— Saint Teresa Of Avila
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That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good worksI mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones. — Teresa Of Avila
All things pass ... Patience attains all it strives for.
— Teresa Of Avila
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
— Saint Teresa Of Avila
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
— 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
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
— Teresa Of Avila
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
— Saint Teresa Of Avila
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
— Teresa Of Avila
Many people are good at talking and bad at understanding,
— 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
From moment to moment one can bear much.
— Teresa Of Avila
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
— 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
All things must come to its roots from where it is planted.
— 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
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
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
— Teresa Of Avila
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
— 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
Do you even know what Avila is?
— Anonymous
Pain is never permanent.
— Saint 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
One always goes on as one begins ...
— 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
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
— Teresa Of Avila
I don't define myself by boys who may or may not like me.
— Rick Riordan
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
— Teresa Of Avila
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
His mouth felt like everything I envisioned heaven and hell must feel like: warm and welcoming, hot and seductive.
— Claire Contreras
Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
— Teresa Of Avila
The hour I have long wished for is now come.
— Teresa Of Avila
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
— Teresa Of Avila
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
— Teresa Of Avila
He was untamed perfection.
— Claire Contreras
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Saint Teresa Of Avila
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
— 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
Either we are the brides of this great King or we are not.
— 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
Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.
— 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
Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.
— Teresa Of Avila
Remember, my sisters, that if we are not good we are much more to blame than others.
— Teresa Of Avila
That namemy 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
She was a femme fatale with creative license, and she was sharpening her pen just for me.
— M.K. Williams
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
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
— Saint 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
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
It is not so essential to think much as to love much.
— 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
The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering
— 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
For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.
— Teresa Of Avila
This isn't my life. You are.
— Claire Contreras
God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.
— 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
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
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
— Teresa Of Avila
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
— Saint 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
God is even kinder than you think.
— Teresa Of Avila
The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.
— Teresa Of Avila
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
— Teresa Of Avila
