“Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.”
Source: Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices
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Famous Teresa of Avila Quotes
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.”
“To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.”
“To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.”
“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”
Source: Life of Prayer
“I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.”
Source: The Interior Castle: or the Mansions
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila
“If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!”
“Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.”