204 Quotes by Teresa of Ávila

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

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.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

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.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

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.

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.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!