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1:May God protect me from gloomy saints. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
2:Words are not needed. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
3:God dwells within you, and there you should dwell with Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
4:I require of you no more than to look. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
5:Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
6:Christ has no body now on earth but yours. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
7:My fondness for good books was my salvation. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
8:Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila,#KEYS
9:The hour I have long wished for is now come. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T3], #KEYS
10:Love is the measure of our ability to bear crosses. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
11:The best thing must be to flee from all to the All. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
12:The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
13:Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
14:It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
15:The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes." ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
16:However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T5], #KEYS
17:I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
18:Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T5], #KEYS
19:When the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future! ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
20:Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T5], #KEYS
21:Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
22:How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
23:If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
24:How is it that when there is so little time to enjoy your presence, you hide from me? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
25:Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul." ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
26:We can never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before whom the angels tremble. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
27:In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
28:We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
29:The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love." ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
30:Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
31:We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
32:Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
33:It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
34:She no longer cares for anything except to abandon herself to joy, nourished by the divine milk ...this holy madness... ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
35:Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
36:In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
37:We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T5], #KEYS
38: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, #KEYS
39:Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
40:Behind each priest, there is a demon fighting for his fall. If we have the language to criticize them, we must have twice as much to pray for them.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila,#KEYS
41:Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T5], #KEYS
42:The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
43:Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
44:Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
45:Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
46:Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
47:A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
48:Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T7], #KEYS
49:Now let us return to our beautiful and charming castle and discover how to enter it. This appears incongruous: if this castle is the soul, clearly no one can have to enter it, for it is the person himself: one might as well tell some one to go into a room he is already in! There are, however, very different ways of being in this castle; many souls live in the courtyard of the building where the sentinels stand, neither caring to enter farther, nor to know who dwells in that most delightful place, what is in it and what rooms it contains. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, #KEYS
50:8. Now let us turn at last to our castle with its many mansions. You must not think of a suite of rooms placed in succession, but fix your eyes on the keep, the court inhabited by the King.23' Like the kernel of the palmito,24' from which several rinds must be removed before coming to the eatable part, this principal chamber is surrounded by many others. However large, magnificent, and spacious you imagine this castle to be, you cannot exaggerate it; the capacity of the soul is beyond all our understanding, and the Sun within this palace enlightens every part of it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, #KEYS
51:10.: I do not know whether I have put this clearly; self-knowledge is of such consequence that I would not have you careless of it, though you may be lifted to heaven in prayer, because while on earth nothing is more needful than humility. Therefore, I repeat, not only a good way, but the best of all ways, is to endeavour to enter first by the room where humility is practised, which is far better than at once rushing on to the others. This is the right road;-if we know how easy and safe it is to walk by it, why ask for wings with which to fly? Let us rather try to learn how to advance quickly. I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, 1.02, #KEYS
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1:Who God possesseth ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
2:Love draws forth love. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
3:Pain is never permanent. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
4:Love turns work into rest. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
5:Patience obtains everything. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
6:All times are dangerous times. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
7:Truth suffers, but never dies. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
8:Teach by works more than words. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
9:One always goes on as one begins. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
10:God is even kinder than you think. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
11:God, deliver me from sullen saints. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
12:Nothing is small if God accepts it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
13:After you die, you wear what you are. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
14:Be kind to all and severe to thyself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
15:Christ moves along the pots and pans. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
16:May God protect me from gloomy saints. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
17:I require of you no more than to look. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
18:Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers! ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
19:From moment to moment one can bear much. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
20:Patient endurance attends to all things. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
21:Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
22:Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
23:Christ has no body now on earth but yours. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
24:Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
25:Christ has no body now on earth but yours. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
26:He who has God finds he is lacking nothing. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
27:Thank God for the things that I do not own. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
28:Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
29:Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
30:The hour I have long wished for is now come. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
31:Happy the heart where love has come to birth. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
32:My fondness for good books was my salvation. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
33:Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
34:Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila,#NFDB
35:Let thy words be few when in the midst of many. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
36:Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
37:It is love alone that gives worth to all things. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
38:Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
39:If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
40:Spirit is the life of God within us” (Saint Teresa of Avila) ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
41:The best thing must be to flee from all to the All. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
42:The hour I have long wished for is now come. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T3], #NFDB
43:The best thing must be to flee from all to the All. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
44:The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
45:It is not so essential to think much as to love much. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
46:Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
47:Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
48:Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
49:The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
50:For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
51:Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
52:All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
53:However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
54:It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
55:You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
56:Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
57:It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
58:It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
59:Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
60:The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
61:Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
62:Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
63:Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
64:God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
65:Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
66:Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
67:However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T5], #NFDB
68:It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
69:Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
70:Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
71:Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again! ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
72:How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast! ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
73:Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
74:Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
75:Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T5], #index, #NFDB
76:Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee! ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
77:What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
78:Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T5], #NFDB
79:Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
80:If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few! ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
81:Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
82:To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
83:All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
84:For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
85:The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
86:From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
87:To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
88:A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
89:God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
90:How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
91:Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
92:Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
93:All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
94:God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
95:Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
96:How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
97:The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
98:Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
99:I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
100:Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
101:I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
102:There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
103:What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people! ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
104:The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
105:When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
106:But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
107:To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
108:I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
109:If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
110:Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
111:People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
112:Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
113:It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
114:May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
115:There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
116:Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
117:Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
118:We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
119:To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
120:How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
121:Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
122:It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
123:Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
124:Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
125:Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
126:Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
127:Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
128:From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
129:How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
130:The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
131:Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
132:Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
133:I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
134:In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
135:No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
136:Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
137:In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
138:I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
139:Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
140:What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
141:We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
142:If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
143:The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
144:We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
145:You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
146:[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
147:Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
148:About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
149:It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
150:There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
151:A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
152:Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
153:Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
154:Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
155:That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
156:Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
157:I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
158:It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
159:We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
160:In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
161:Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
162:There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
163:We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
164:However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
165:I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
166:Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
167: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. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
168:I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
169:It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
170:It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
171:It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
172:God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
173:She no longer cares for anything except to abandon herself to joy, nourished by the divine milk ...this holy madness... ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
174:It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
175:All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
176:Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
177:We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
178:God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
179:In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
180:Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
181:With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
182:In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
183: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. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
184:Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
185: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, #NFDB
186:If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
187:To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
188:We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T5], #NFDB
189:Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
190:Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
191:Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
192:What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
193:What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
194:I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.' ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
195:The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
196:How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
197:His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
198:Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
199:True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
200: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. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
201: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, #NFDB
202:I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
203:Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
204: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, #NFDB
205:True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
206:Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
207:There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
208:Behind each priest, there is a demon fighting for his fall. If we have the language to criticize them, we must have twice as much to pray for them.
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209:Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
210:We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
211:Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
212:It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
213:Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
214:In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
215:Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
216:So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
217:This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
218:How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
219:I don't know what heavy penance could have come to mind that frequently I would not have gladly undertaken rather than recollect myself in the practice of prayer. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
220:Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
221:Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
222:Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T5], #index, #NFDB
223:Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
224:Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
225:Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
226:I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
227:Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
228:Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
229:Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
230:It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
231:Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
232:If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
233:I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
234:Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
235:Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
236:I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often! ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
237:[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
238:Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
239:Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
240:Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
241:Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
242:We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
243:Let nothing Disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; For God alone suffices. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
244:Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
245:If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
246:Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
247:May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
248:God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
249:In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
250:All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
251:Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
252:Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
253:God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
254:Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
255:While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
256:As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
257:Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
258:To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
259:O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
260:Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
261:In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
262:We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
263:It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
264:Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
265:Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
266:The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of the enemy; for when God sends an inspiration, the very first effect of it is to infuse a spirit of docility. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
267:It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
268:If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
269:It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
270:Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
271:If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
272:We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
273:Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain of genuine humility doesn't agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
274:The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
275:They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
276:I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
277:Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
278:We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
279:For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
280:One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
281:As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
282:Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
283:The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
284:The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great pain this lack causes, the pain is much more intense here. All these things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
285:I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
286:I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
287:My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
288:If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
289:Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA ~ Shawn Smucker, #NFDB
290:The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
291:How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
292:Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
293:Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
294:The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
295:Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
296:Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
297:A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
298:A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
299:Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
300:The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer... There is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen... ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
301:What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
302:Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
303:My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
304:If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
305:When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
306:I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
307:Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth. [1469.jpg] -- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield
~ Saint Teresa of Avila, Let nothing disturb thee
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308:We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
309:Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
310:Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
311:Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, [T7], #NFDB
312:Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer is the only way to amend one's life and without prayer it will never be mended. Let him not be tempted of the devil, as I was, to give up prayer on account of one's unworthiness. Let such a one rather believe that if he will only repent and pray, our Lord will still hear and answer. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
313:Do not be dismayed, daughters, at the number of things that you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
314:I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
315:We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
316:Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through which to look out Christ's compassion to the world Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now. [2652.jpg] -- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger
~ Saint Teresa of Avila, You are Christs Hands
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317:His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should give us, for He can rightly tell us that we don't know what we're asking for (cf. Mt. 20:22). The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer ? and don't forget this, because it's very important ? should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every possible effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
318:Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did not wish to deceive me, but the fact was that they knew no better. Of something which was a venial sin, they said it was no sin, and out of a very grave mortal sin they made a venial sin. This has done me such harm, that my speaking here of so great an evil, as a warning to others, will be readily understood. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
319:Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
320:The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that dwelling be in which a King so mighty, so wise, and so pure, containing in Himself all good, can delight to rest? Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He told us, He created us in his own image and likeness. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
321:May today there be peace within May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith May you use those gifts that you have received and pass on the love that has been given to you May you be content knowing that you are a child of God Let this presence settle into your bones and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love It is there for each and every one of us. —Saint Teresa of Avila ~ Maria Shriver, #NFDB
322:I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them, thinking of Him for Whose service they were undertaken and remembering that Our Lord would be praised and the most Holy Sacrament would dwell in the house I was going to found... It should be a great consolation to us - though many of us do not think of it - that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, dwells as He does in so many places in the most Holy Sacrament ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
323:I gave myself to Love Divine, And lo! my lot so changed is That my Beloved One is mine And I at last am surely His. When the sweet Huntsman from above First wounded me and left me prone, Into the very arms of Love My stricken soul forthwith was thrown. Since then my life's no more my own And all my lot so changed That my Beloved One is mine And I at last am surely His. [1831.jpg] -- from Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs
~ Saint Teresa of Avila, My Beloved One is Mine
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324:We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for no merit of ours. Let us be grateful to His Majesty for them, for, unless we recognize that we are receiving them, we shall not be aroused to love Him. And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all the time that we are poor, the richer we find ourselves, the greater will be the profit that comes to us and the more genuine our humility. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
325:Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
326:thought of as more genteel This myth has been seen as the forerunner of the immaculate conception of the modern God, Gentle Jesus. The experience of Saint Teresa of Avila (circa 1552) is perhaps the most famous example in Western culture of the ecstasy of the fiery, divine intercourse. Idealized in marble by the master sculptor Bernini, the famous vision has held generations of the devout in awe. Saint Teresa, a capable and prolific writer described an angel, armed with a long golden spear with a "fiery tip" who repeatedly: ~ Christopher S Hyatt, #NFDB
327:Oh Beauty exceeding All other beauties! Paining, but You wound not Free of pain You destroy The love of creatures. Oh, knot that binds Two so different, Why do You become unbound For when held fast You strengthen Making injuries seem good. Bind the one without being With being unending; Finish, without finishing, Love, without having to love, Magnify our nothingness. [bk1sm.gif] -- from The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume Three, Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD / Translated by Otilio Rodriguez, OCD
~ Saint Teresa of Avila, Oh Exceeding Beauty
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328:Now let us return to our beautiful and charming castle and discover how to enter it. This appears incongruous: if this castle is the soul, clearly no one can have to enter it, for it is the person himself: one might as well tell some one to go into a room he is already in! There are, however, very different ways of being in this castle; many souls live in the courtyard of the building where the sentinels stand, neither caring to enter farther, nor to know who dwells in that most delightful place, what is in it and what rooms it contains. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, #NFDB
329:8. Now let us turn at last to our castle with its many mansions. You must not think of a suite of rooms placed in succession, but fix your eyes on the keep, the court inhabited by the King.23' Like the kernel of the palmito,24' from which several rinds must be removed before coming to the eatable part, this principal chamber is surrounded by many others. However large, magnificent, and spacious you imagine this castle to be, you cannot exaggerate it; the capacity of the soul is beyond all our understanding, and the Sun within this palace enlightens every part of it. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, #NFDB
330:Already I gave myself completely, and have changed in such a way That my Beloved is for me and I am for my Beloved. When the gentle hunter shot me and left me in all my weakness, in the arms of love my soul fell and being charged with new life I have changed in such a way That My Beloved is for me and I am for my Beloved. He pierced me with an arrow laced with the herbs of love and my soul became one with her Creator; I no longer want another love, since I have given myself to my God, That My Beloved is for me and I am for my Beloved. [2652.jpg] -- from The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology), Edited by Ivan M. Granger
~ Saint Teresa of Avila, On Those Words I am for My Beloved
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331:10.: I do not know whether I have put this clearly; self-knowledge is of such consequence that I would not have you careless of it, though you may be lifted to heaven in prayer, because while on earth nothing is more needful than humility. Therefore, I repeat, not only a good way, but the best of all ways, is to endeavour to enter first by the room where humility is practised, which is far better than at once rushing on to the others. This is the right road;-if we know how easy and safe it is to walk by it, why ask for wings with which to fly? Let us rather try to learn how to advance quickly. I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, 1.02, #NFDB
332:I live without living in me, and I expect a life so high, that I die because I do not die. I live already beside myself since I am dying of love; because I live in Him, who wanted me for Himself: when I gave my heart to Him He placed this sign in it, that I die because I do not die. This divine prison, the love in which I'm living, has made God my captive, and my heart free; causing in me such passion, to see God, my prisoner, That I die because I do not die. Oh, how long is this life! How hard this exile, this prison, these chains which my soul has entered! Just waiting to get free causes me so much fierce pain, that I die because I do not die. Ah! so much bitterness in this life without God as my lover! Because if to be in love is sweet, to wait so long is not: take this burden God, heavier than steel, that I die because I do not die. Trusting in You alone, I only live because I know I'll die because in death I know that I will live; death, where I'll find life do not be slow, it is you I wait for, that I die because I do not die. You see how strong love is; life, do not hinder me, you see, all I need do to gain you is to lose you. Come on already sweet death come quickly death that I die because I do not die. That life above, that is the true life, until this life dies nothing can be enjoyed in living death, don't be coy; let me live by dying first, that I die because I do not die. Life, what can I give to my God who lives in me? In losing you, then I am worthy of gaining Him. I want to reach Him by dying, Since I love my lover so, that I die because I do not die.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila, I Live Without Living In Me
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333:I am Yours and born of You, What do You want of me? Majestic Sovereign, Unending wisdom, Kindness pleasing to my soul; God sublime, one Being Good, Behold this one so vile. Singing of her love to you: What do You want of me? Yours, you made me, Yours, you saved me, Yours, you endured me, Yours, you called me, Yours, you awaited me, Yours, I did not stray. What do You want of me? Good Lord, what do you want of me, What is this wretch to do? What work is this, This sinful slave, to do? Look at me, Sweet Love, Sweet Love, look at me, What do You want of me? In Your hand I place my heart, Body, life and soul, Deep feelings and affections mine, Spouse -- Redeemer sweet, Myself offered now to you, What do You want of me? Give me death, give me life, Health or sickness, Honor or shame, War or swelling peace, Weakness or full strength, Yes, to these I say, What do You want of me? Give me wealth or want, Delight or distress, Happiness or gloominess, Heaven or hell, Sweet life, sun unveiled, To you I give all. What do You want of me? Give me, if You will, prayer; Or let me know dryness, And abundance of devotion, Or if not, then barrenness. In you alone, Sovereign Majesty, I find my peace, What do You want of me? Give me then wisdom. Or for love, ignorance, Years of abundance, Or hunger and famine. Darkness or sunlight, Move me here or there: What do You want of me? If You want me to rest, I desire it for love; If to labor, I will die working: Sweet Love say Where, how and when. What do You want of me? Calvary or Tabor give me, Desert or fruitful land; As Job in suffering Or John at Your breast; Barren or fruited vine, Whatever be Your will: What do You want of me? Be I Joseph chained Or as Egypt's governor, David pained Or exalted high, Jonas drowned, Or Jonas freed: What do You want of me? Silent or speaking, Fruitbearing or barren, My wounds shown by the Law, Rejoicing in the tender Gospel; Sorrowing or exulting, You alone live in me: What do You want of me? Yours I am, for You I was born: What do You want of me? [bk1sm.gif] -- from The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume Three, Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD / Translated by Otilio Rodriguez, OCD
~ Saint Teresa of Avila, In the Hands of God
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1.07 - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
I have elsewhere given preliminary descriptions of the deep structures (and pathologies) of each of these four major stages.22 Instead of repeating myself, I have for this presentation simply chosen four individuals who are especially representative of these stages, and will let them speak for us. They are (respectively) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Saint Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart, and Sri Ramana Maharshi. Each also represents the type of mysticism typical at each stage: nature mysticism, deity mysticism, formless mysticism, and nondual mysticism (each of which we will discuss).
And each represents a form of tomorrow, a shape of our destiny yet to come. Each rode time's arrow ahead of us, as geniuses always do, and thus, even though looming out of our past, they call to us from our future.
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1. Teresa of Avila, Saint Teresa of Avila ::: (Spanish mystic and religious reformer; author of religious classics and a Christian saint (1515-1582))
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