Teresa of Ávila quotes - page 6

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles. (Teresa of Ávila)
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. View quote
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God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed. View quote
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It is not so essential to think much as to love much. View quote
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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. View quote
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Let thy words be few when in the midst of many. View quote
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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. View quote
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Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die. View quote
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. View quote
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I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me. View quote
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Patience obtains everything. (Teresa of Ávila)
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears. View quote
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. View quote
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It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them. View quote
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The hour I have long wished for is now come. View quote
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Just as we cannot stop the movement of the heavens, revolving as they do with such speed, so we cannot restrain our thought. And then we send all the faculties of the soul after it, thinking we are lost, and have misused the time that we are spending in the presence of God. Yet the soul may perhaps be wholly united with Him in the Mansions very near His presence, while thought remains in the outskirts of the castle, suffering the assaults of a thousand wild and venomous creatures and from this suffering winning merit. So this must not upset us, and we must not abandon the struggle, as the devil tries to make us do. Most of these trials and times of unrest come from the fact that we do not understand ourselves. View quote
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The image of St. Theresa, the Spaniard, is not less than that of St Francis of Assisi. Let us also recall the ancient times when, in spite of the fact that masculine egoism always attempted to suppress the achievements of women, there were always some illumined minds that did not submit to this shameful weakness. View quote
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