Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. Teresa of Avila More Quotes by Teresa of Avila More Quotes From Teresa of Avila Be kind to all and severe to thyself. Teresa of Avila severe be-kind kind To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face Teresa of Avila kings desire giving For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches. Teresa of Avila soldier perfect war So dearly does His Majesty love us that He will reward our love for our neighbor by increasing the love which we bear to Himself, and that in a thousand ways. Teresa of Avila christian doe love When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness. Teresa of Avila soul joy order Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use. Teresa of Avila prayer feet hands Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire. Teresa of Avila practice prayer desire I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another. Teresa of Avila wish writing hands But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them. Teresa of Avila longing waiting facts Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will. Teresa of Avila needs It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. Teresa of Avila disgrace misfortunes faults Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. Teresa of Avila mind may men If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly. Teresa of Avila intimate secret desire The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world. Teresa of Avila contentment lovers world Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Teresa of Avila hours catholic soul Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices. Teresa of Avila abundance strive patience A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. Teresa of Avila soul prayer giving I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train. Teresa of Avila spiritual evil men Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction. Teresa of Avila ecstasy real moving Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer is the only way to amend one's life and without prayer it will never be mended. Let him not be tempted of the devil, as I was, to give up prayer on account of one's unworthiness. Let such a one rather believe that if he will only repent and pray, our Lord will still hear and answer. Teresa of Avila giving-up prayer believe
