“ Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. Saint Teresa of Avila
“ It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. Saint Teresa of Avila
“ To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Saint Teresa of Avila
“ 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 ignoran… Saint Teresa of Avila
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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… Saint Teresa of Avila
“ 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… Saint Teresa of Avila
“ 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 creat… Saint Teresa of Avila
“ 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
“ 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
