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Saint Teresa of Avila

11 quotes

Saint Teresa of Avila is the kind of thinker who lets the words do the talking — and they talk volumes. Their thinking spans from God to Good, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 16 quotes from Saint Teresa of Avila, each offering a different angle on God, Good, Work, Religion, and Power. One standout: "I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."

“God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

God

All Quotes by Saint Teresa of Avila

“The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

God

“To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

Courage

“To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

Experience

“Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

Peace

“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

Friendship

“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.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

God

“I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

Fear

“God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

God

“We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

God

“Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

Motivational

“I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

Power