Famous Quotes / St. Teresa of Avila
38 Quotations by St. Teresa of Avila
- 21. Love makes labor light. Love alone gives value to all things.

- 22. O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic ...

- 23. O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic ...

- 24. Pain is never permanent.

- 25. Patient endurance attends to all things.

- 26. Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li ...

- 27. The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

- 28. The mind of an adult is like an unbroken horse. It will go in any direction except the one in which ...

- 29. The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to pr ...

- 30. There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

- 31. There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be dep ...

- 32. To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for makin ...

- 33. To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

- 34. To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

- 35. To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

- 36. We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God ...

- 37. We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and ...

- 38. With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty an ...
