Teresa Of Ávila
Teresa Of Ávila Quotes about God
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.
God is even kinder than you think.
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.
How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; for God alone suffices.
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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.
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.