St. Teresa of Avila Quotes
-There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
-To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
-Pain is never permanent.
-Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.
-The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.
-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.
-Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
-The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
-To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
-There is no such thing as bad weather. All weather is good because it is God’s.
-You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
