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Famous Teresa of Avila Quotes
“I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.”
“What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us”
Source: The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)
“Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.”
Source: The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1
“The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.”
Source: Santa Teresa: An Appreciation, with Some of the Best Passages of the Saint's Writings Selected
“Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.”
Source: Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
“Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.”
Source: Life of Prayer
“The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.”
“Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.”
Source: The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2
“Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.”
Source: The Interior Castle
Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Avila
Source: The Interior Castle: or the Mansions
“When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.”
Source: Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
“Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!”
“Happy the heart where love has come to birth.”
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila
Source: Interior Castle
“Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.”
Source: The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices
“It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.”
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila