Quotes by : Teresa of Ávila

In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself....

Love turns work into rest.

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

Let nothing disturb you,Let nothing frighten you,All things are passing away:God never changes.Patience....

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains....

Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.

. . . it is presumptuous in me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best for....

. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after....

But, as I know that strength arising from obedience has a way of simplifying things which seem impossible,....

For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the....