With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
- Teresa of Avila
[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
- Teresa of Avila
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.
- Teresa of Avila
Let nothing disturb you nothing frighten you all things are passing God never changes.
- Teresa of Avila
Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.
- Teresa of Avila
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.
