204 Quotes by Teresa of Ávila

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

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.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

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.

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.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

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.