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 Read Quote
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. Saint Teresa of Avila Read Quote
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Saint Teresa of Avila Read Quote
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. Saint Teresa of Avila Read Quote
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. Saint Teresa of Avila Read Quote
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 Read Quote
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. Saint Teresa of Avila Read Quote
