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Saint Teresa  Quotes
Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

—Saint Teresa

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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

—Saint Teresa

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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

—Saint Teresa

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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

—Saint Teresa

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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

—Saint Teresa

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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...

—Saint Teresa

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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

—Saint Teresa

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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

—Saint Teresa

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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied...

—Saint Teresa

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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.

—Saint Teresa

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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

—Saint Teresa

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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...

—Saint Teresa

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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

—Saint Teresa

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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave – caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being...

—Saint Teresa

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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...

—Saint Teresa

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I don’t know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

—Saint Teresa

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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the...

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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.

—Saint Teresa

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

—Saint Teresa

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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

—Saint Teresa

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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to...

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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.

—Saint Teresa

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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...

—Saint Teresa

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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone...

—Saint Teresa

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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

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

—Saint Teresa

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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

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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

—Saint Teresa

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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

—Saint Teresa

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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them...

—Saint Teresa

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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a...

—Saint Teresa

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Pain is never permanent.

—Saint Teresa

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May God protect me from gloomy saints.

—Saint Teresa

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ProtectSaints
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

—Saint Teresa

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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

—Saint Teresa

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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.

—Saint Teresa

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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the...

—Saint Teresa

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found – not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and...

—Saint Teresa

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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.

—Saint Teresa

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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our...

—Saint Teresa

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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord’s pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put...

—Saint Teresa

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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

—Saint Teresa

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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.

—Saint Teresa

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

—Saint Teresa

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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.

—Saint Teresa

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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told...

—Saint Teresa

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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God...

—Saint Teresa

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FriendsHelp
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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...

—Saint Teresa

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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that...

—Saint Teresa

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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see...

—Saint Teresa

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