It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory. Teresa of Avila More Quotes by Teresa of Avila More Quotes From Teresa of Avila When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth. Teresa of Avila soul evil water For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Teresa of Avila catholic prayer friendship Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious. Teresa of Avila comparison compare persons O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. Teresa of Avila tongue humility soul Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die. Teresa of Avila dies way The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. Teresa of Avila humility running giving God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works. Teresa of Avila voice feet hands The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love. Teresa of Avila marriage inspiring love Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation. Teresa of Avila self perfect exercise In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence Teresa of Avila holy-eucharist blessed jesus The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us. Teresa of Avila god-within-us spirituality spirit 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 done humility remember If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will. Teresa of Avila attachment soul order 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 humility half fear I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked. Teresa of Avila grace mother father Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end. Teresa of Avila one-day struggle dream All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles. Teresa of Avila frustration battle trials It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship. Teresa of Avila folly saint law It is not so essential to think much as to love much. Teresa of Avila christian faith love It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility. Teresa of Avila progress humility real
