Quotes from Teresa of Avila
Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
- Teresa of Avila
God, deliver me from sullen saints.
- Teresa of Avila
God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.
- Teresa of Avila
We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
- Teresa of Avila
How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?
- Teresa of Avila
God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.
- Teresa of Avila
It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.
- Teresa of Avila
Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
- Teresa of Avila
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
- Teresa of Avila
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
- 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?
- 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.
- Teresa of Avila