Quotes about Teresa of Avila

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

Home is another word for the Spirit that we are, our True Self in God. The self-same moment that we find God in ourselves, we also find ourselves inside God, and this is the full homecoming, according to Teresa of Avila.

I did not see many examples of God "smiting" his enemies; in fact, it was usually God's friends who got smited, as Teresa of Avila noted! If God asked me to love unconditionally and universally, then it was clear that God operated in the same way.

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.